Most people can’t go home because of the gulf that exists between their childhood memories and reality. Many residents of Eastern Ontario can’t go home because it lies under the St. Lawrence Seaway.
War, what is it good for? Absolutely nothing.
--Bruce Springsteen
In the wake of WW# 1&2 many children met their fathers for the first time at age 5: a man nervous, short-tempered, and irresolute: who had trouble getting or keeping a permanent job or completing anything he ever started.
The story ranges over the state of Maine, Upstate New York, and the Thousand Islands area of Ontario. Also Alberta, British Columbia and Fargo, North Dakota. The story ranges far and wide in between and eventually to Vietnam.
To quote Henry’s wife: “The war can’t explain you forever, you know. I think you should be gone by the time we get home.”
I had read nearly a quarter of the book before I realized the narrator was a woman, not a man.
Eventually in a book about Vets we end up in Vietnam as the point of view changes. This by way of allowing at least one Vet to talk about his War Experience. And this being Vietnam marijuana is involved. And as with most soldiers there were incidents a soldier would rather forget that continue to haunt him but about which he is reluctant to talk. Finally a man referred to as father turns out to be Napoleon Haskell.
War, what is it good for? Absolutely nothing.
--Bruce Springsteen
In the wake of WW# 1&2 many children met their fathers for the first time at age 5: a man nervous, short-tempered, and irresolute: who had trouble getting or keeping a permanent job or completing anything he ever started.
The story ranges over the state of Maine, Upstate New York, and the Thousand Islands area of Ontario. Also Alberta, British Columbia and Fargo, North Dakota. The story ranges far and wide in between and eventually to Vietnam.
To quote Henry’s wife: “The war can’t explain you forever, you know. I think you should be gone by the time we get home.”
I had read nearly a quarter of the book before I realized the narrator was a woman, not a man.
Eventually in a book about Vets we end up in Vietnam as the point of view changes. This by way of allowing at least one Vet to talk about his War Experience. And this being Vietnam marijuana is involved. And as with most soldiers there were incidents a soldier would rather forget that continue to haunt him but about which he is reluctant to talk. Finally a man referred to as father turns out to be Napoleon Haskell.
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