Riding With Mud

This is a short story about my illness in 1969 that I brought home from Vietnam.  I don't have a clue why I am writing about it other than I have a little time and feel the need to write about something. Here goes.
In the Central Highlands of Vietnam, there are a lot of different kinds of places to be.  There are plains a lot like the foothills near Denver and mountains like you would see in Central America.  The biggest difference is the heat and the humidity...

As I travel out and about, I see a lot of old guys wearing those Vietnam Veteran hats.  I always go up to them and say, "When I went to Vietnam we were a bunch of young guns and now all I see are old guys wearing those Vietnam hats."  How do you explain...

I am currently reading a book about the attack on Hue City in Vietnam during Tet of 1968.  It reminds me that even though I spent a year there in 1968, I knew damned little about the entire war.  For many reasons, the people in power in the 50's thought...

For the record, Kansas was once covered with ice and the glacier brought red rock from Minnesota and we have them all over the place.  Since then, the climate has been warming up and we no longer have a constant snow cover.  But, today it is 20 degrees...