Days of War: Movie “The Wall” and My Mother
I saw another Vietnam war movie, “The Wall” — better than some other ones I’ve watched, its home scenes brought back memories of when I left for Vietnam.
Spain: Strange How Memories Work
My best friend and I took our spring vacation in Spain. We both loved Hemingway and, having read “Death in the Afternoon”, we went to the corridas, the bullfights, and enjoyed them.
Days of Peace: Snake In Your House
In Africa, snakes were plentiful, so we were trained to be careful, for poisonous snakes abounded, as did constrictors like boa constrictors.
Days of Peace: Monsier Basari, Comradery, and a Personal Lesson in Segregation
In 1968 I was in training for the Peace Corps in Togo in Leland, Louisiana, near Natchez on an African American college campus that had recently closed. There I met African trainers, some from the Ivory Coast and others from Togo. One of my favorites was Monsieur Basari.
Chain Saws
Chain Saws: A New Sound but One I’d Heard Before…
Days of War: Vietnam Infantry – Muscular Physique?
In the Vietnam Infantry, why didn’t I have a muscular physique like Rambo or Dwayne Johnson? I recently learned the answer to that question.
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