I remember the Vietnam War

When I was in high school the war in Vietnam was still going on. John Currie Hansen who lived just up the street from me when I was in diapers was KIA July 15, 1969 as a helicopter pilot from my hometown in Oregon. I have known alot of Vietnam vets from that war. I didn't know what a blood bath it really was until years later. I wrote to a boy Brian Rollman who was from Minot, North Dakota when he was stationed in the Mekong Delta in 1968-69. He came home and took me to my prom. I still have that picture of us when I wore my pretty pink prom dress. In 1974, I was working in Portland, Oregon as a Dental Assistant and back then I loved to dance. I went to a dance in Washington State and just met a guy just home from the war. He wouldn't stop dancing with me. I promised to meet him the next week for a date but came down sick. He felt I had just stood him up and went out and got drunk and in a horrible car accident. The next time I visited Washington I asked my sister how John had been doing? She said--"Thanks to you he almost got killed in a car accident." My mother was there and said--"It was the war that caused that car accident not Deborah." I have regretted to this day not visiting that poor young man in the hospital. So many I've known since then whose lives have never been the same. I have just finished my story "Raggedy Ann Man" about a girl who meets a guy just home from the war who is a Mormon. They fall in love and marry in the Oakland California Temple. I love happy endings you know?

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