[Zakeet]

This is the third of three articles honoring veterans in today's Fort Hood Sentinel.
It was written by my newspaper reporter daughter.

[Zakeet]

If interested, you can find the other two articles here and here.

[knarf]

The traveling Wall visited a cemetery in western PA some 12 or so years ago and I read every name. It took hours and it was a hot, sunny day.

I knew I didn't have to do that, but once I started, I couldn't staop, and as the names started to melt together, I realized I couldn't stop.

I enlisted at 17 in 1965 and I had no idea how many of those names were kids like me .. full of piss and vinegar or pissed off because they were drafted.

The experience sort of screwed my up for a week or so, not crazy screwed up, but a patriotic anger that started the thought process that is now a more mature will to kill.

Welcome home, sailor.

[magslinger]

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