Tommy Ontiveros, KIA Vietnam
"The brave never die, though they sleep in dust: Their courage nerves a thousand living men." -Minot Judson Savage, American clergyman and author On a facebook page for those who grew up in my town, I posted a remembrance of our local young men who had died in Vietnam. I received several comments asking, "What about Tommy Ontiveros?". I hadn't heard his name before, he wasn't on the list and he wasn't on the wall at our local memorial. I did a little research and found tha
Gary Ascher, Vietnam veteran
After a few emails back and forth, Gary asked for my address so he could mail me something but he wouldn't say what it was. Others had written reviews of my book, but they had simply emailed links to it. I wondered what it could be that he would have to send it through the mail. I just had to wait. So you can wait too, until I'm done telling you about Gary. He grew up in Oregon in the 1950s. Like me and Eddy, he had nieces barely over a year younger than he was and a nep
