Ripple Effect

A journal of memories, impressions, ideas and mistakes.

Tuesday, September 14, 2004

A newspaper clipping - a young man I don't remember - a friend of the fiancee's, I believe. One David Lee, "home on leave following completion of basic training at Fort Dix, N.J." He graduated college and enlisted. That's what young men did then. They didn't necessarily like it, but they did it - two years, and they would be done. It was a given.

College graduates - most of them, in 1962/62 - wouldn't have been able to find Viet Nam on a map.

"Lee will go to Fort Holobird, Md., following leave to attend image interpreter school." I wonder if he survived.

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