A Hot Day in Vietnam, a 19-Year-Old Stepped on a Landmine

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re for three months.A week or so later the news made it to Galveston, TX that he was dead. Another casualty of a deadly and meaningless undeclared war.Duke (LCPL Perry (Duke) Haney) had dated a friend. I barely knew him, but as happens with adolescents, his death was personal. His death was traumatic.How much more traumatic it was for so many others who knew him and loved him. Every Memorial Day I’m sure stories are told about him.<p id=

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"4021">Stories of the new high school graduate who enlisted in the Marines and became a man.The young man awarded a Bronze Star for Valor.The man who stepped on a landmine three months after he arrived.Duke’s death awakened within me the antipathy for war.I thank him and all those young people who fought with courage for a war old white men wanted and willingly sacrificed any young person for their ends.</article></body>

The day war became real

The Viet Nam Memorial Image by Saledancer from Pixabay.com

He would be 73 today if not for that life-ending step on a landmine in Quang Nam Vietnam. It was a month after his 19th birthday. He had been there for three months.

A week or so later the news made it to Galveston, TX that he was dead. Another casualty of a deadly and meaningless undeclared war.

Duke (LCPL Perry (Duke) Haney) had dated a friend. I barely knew him, but as happens with adolescents, his death was personal. His death was traumatic.

How much more traumatic it was for so many others who knew him and loved him. Every Memorial Day I’m sure stories are told about him.

Stories of the new high school graduate who enlisted in the Marines and became a man.

The young man awarded a Bronze Star for Valor.

The man who stepped on a landmine three months after he arrived.

Duke’s death awakened within me the antipathy for war.

I thank him and all those young people who fought with courage for a war old white men wanted and willingly sacrificed any young person for their ends.