Chapter 9: Becoming a Marine
Rudy and Jean drove all the way from Greenville to witness my graduation. It is more than a five-hour drive from the Blue Ridge foothills to the coast along narrow country roads. I was glad to see them both. I was so exhausted that I did not say very much. I escorted them to the once forbidden zone of the base cafeteria where all the regular soldiers gathered between duties. It was the closest to civilization I had been in three months. We talked for less than an hour and then they were gone.
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Distance Traveled: A Chronicle in Time
Non-FictionThis is an autobiographical novel beginning in a small town in old south America. It records the life of a young man growing up in the shadow of the escalating Viet Nam war and eventually joining the United States Marine Corps to become a part of t...
