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When Bill Holiday first started seeing articles in the Reformer about Vietnam, it was probably after June 1965. Charles Armour, Mike Canova, Jack Gouger, and I had graduated that month, and 10 days later we were standing tall on the infamous “yellow footprints” at Parris Island.
That is where we first learned that there were two kinds of Marine: those who were in Vietnam and those who were going!
I guess we were naive back then.
Growing up in Brattleboro was a special experience that only folks who did could understand. Good schools. Good families. Good place to raise kids. Anybody could get a job. No visible drugs, poverty or major social issues. Or were we too young or lucky to see it. Did it exist in the '60s?...
