In the spring of 1970 -- right after the Kent State National Guard shootings and President Nixon's two-month incursion into Cambodia -- four newly married young women come together at Ft. Knox, Kentucky, when their husbands go on active duty as officers in the U.S. Army during the tumultuous Vietnam War era.
They had their whole lives to look forward to -- if only their husbands could survive Vietnam.
Differeht as these four women are, they have one thing in common: Their overwhelming fear that, right after these nine weeks of training, their husbands could be shipped out to Vietnam -- and they could become war widows.
Sharon is a Northern Jewish anti-war protester who fell in love with an ROTC cadet; Kim is a Southern Baptist whose husband is intensely jealous; Donna is a Puerto Rican who grew up in an enlisted man's family; and Wendy is a Southern black whose parents have sheltered her from the brutal reality of racism in America.
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Her mother whispered to her last night, "Why is his hair so short?" Obviously her mother doesn't know anything about the army. And the nightly television news shots of men fighting in Vietnam are too blurry to see the men's hair length.
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Dear Sharon,
The book sounds intersting. How is your book doing?
I am a Christian who married a Jew. She died years ago. We have two wonderful children. Now I am married to a Christian nurse. We are both retired USAF Majors.
Yes, we are happily married.
Anyway - How goes it by you???
'Coruscated Confabulations' is a collection of stories and experiences, most of which took place in prior decades. They are taken from or based upon real events, with a certain admixture of fictional embellishments.
