Last Thursday, two days before my 70th birthday, a gift I never could have imagined, arrived in the mail. From a man I had never met. He hoped I would receive it in time for my birthday.
After Eddy was killed in Vietnam March 4th, 1968, I put my head in the sand...
"The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst." - Henry Fosdick
It was his smile that Gary noticed first. They were in line at the Induction Center in Portland. It was an innocent smile. When Gary Ascher was sent to Fort Lewis, there was...