Ronald Straight:  

After high school I worked during the summer at a commercial graphic arts company running a line camera and silk screening machine, but I had a few of my buddies getting drafted into the Army, and I didn't want to be home when they were fighting in Nam. I grew up in a Navy house hold and if college wasn't in my future then serving my country was my calling.So two of us got a guarantee buddy-plan in the Army to fight in the Infantry for two years.We both got to fight in the same Division 25th Infantry, 27th Regiment "WOLFHOUNDS"( see google about our unit's legacy)on 9/27/70 I was wounded in a fire fight in the Hobo-Woods, South Vietnam, just a flesh wound to my face, neck, chest,recieved the Purple Heart medal and Bronze star medal. Dennis Dourherty, my homie,was snake-bitten on ambush at night, he made it home in 1971. Dennis attended Morse HS 1964-69 but dropped out do to being young, and not interested with school(stuff-happens)especially during the drug era!!! Needless to say those two years left a big-scare upon my brain in which it still haunts me today......anger,abandonment,camradery,night mares,and fight or flight syndrome.......Then I met my wife 1972 got married in Fe...Expand for more