The nonfiction story I've been working on for the past few years has been Tales & Lives of the Vietnam War. By "working on" I mean gathering stories as I tell people I'm working on it when in fact I keep putting it off. I finally decided on Veteran's Day last year that I couldn't put this off anymore. So I started actually pecking away at it.
To be honest, it's very difficult to get through. The subject matter is obviously depressing, but it's also been depressing for me ever since Two Gun didn't do very well. If that was a subject that didn't catch people's attention, I don't see why this one should. From everything I've seen, people want to bury this part of history and never hear about it again.
But hearing these stories, I can't help but realize how important it is for people to hear them. So I push on.
So far I've finished Lance Block's story and Wally Turner's. This was the story of an infantryman and a priest. I've started on the next ones and am expecting to speed up a bit. I want to have it done by Memorial Day
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