Sitting nearby Pete Haley at the bar is Jim Miller, 65. His Vietnam experience is quite different.
He went to South Vietnam in 1970 as a healthy young man and left a sick man plagued by ailments that haunt him still. He attributes his illnesses to his time in Vietnam where he worked with grave registration.
"I took care of the dead over there," Miller said. I got Agent orange from picking up dead bodies."
Agent Orange was a herbicide sprayed from planes to defoliage areas of the Vietnamese jungles and expose the enemy's troop movement. the chemical is blames for health problems of veterans who came into contact with it.
Asked who he memorializes on Monday's holiday, Miller said, "Anybody who served time and survived it because there's a lot of guys who never made it back -- from Vietnam, especially."
Being an account of some things I'm interested in, what I'm doing, and reflections on my past, especially music.
Listen to this man. Seven years of college, you know. Trying to reason with 2020 and, now, 2022.
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