The sun was a physical weight that afternoon, an oppressive, wet heat that seemed to pin everything to the red dust of our base camp in Kon Tum, Vietnam. I was 19, a supply sergeant, and my world was defined by our perimeter wire and the daily inventory of survival. “Notice anything strange about her, […]
Dennis White
Dennis White served in the U.S. Army between 1966 and 1996 with foreign tours in Korea, Vietnam, and Germany. After attaining the enlisted rank of staff sergeant, he was commissioned from Engineer Officer Candidate School and retired as a lieutenant colonel, U.S. Army Reserve. He writes from Eden Prairie, Minnesota.
