ACE WAS THE GUY
Nice making sense of the abnormal;
Ace went to Vietnam twice. Signed
up again after he could have gone
home. Sat with a smile, sometimes
seemed morose. He taught me how
to telegraph feelings, like he did
with the Montagnards. They'd
kept giving him jewels and trinkets,
amulets and stones as gifts for his
service - he was a Medic in the
highlands where they lived, and
when he arrived back he had lots
of those offerings with him.
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I figured that for a nice thing. We
never talked about incidentals, but
what I surmised was that, in some
form of learning, he'd had himself
an eye-opening tour of duty, for
that second time around. Came
back a different man.
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