Four soldiers tell their stories in Chapter Two: Gerald McCarthy…

ElderRoseDeer38 Four soldiers tell their stories in Chapter Two: Gerald McCarthy…Four soldiers tell their stories in Chapter Two:Gerald McCarthy pages 52-55D. Ehrhart pages 63-67Loren Webster pages 70-72Roger Steffens pages 80-89Select two of the four soldiers and tell me what you thought was significant about their stories.Image transcription text90 CHAPTER TWO everyone’s candle was flickering in thedarkness. We then observed a five-minute silent prayer to usherin Christmas Day after which we all took communion, t… Show more… Show moreImage transcription text”Bad Moon Rising” 89 dropped out of the war to comelive in communal bliss with him. Each was given a house to live in,built by the community. Labor, and every- thing else, w… Show more… Show moreImage transcription text88 CHAPTER TWO alive on the streets of the capital before theconsuming cameras of the international press. I swear I seennothin’ but a lot of frowns. Con Phuong was the only pl… Show more… Show moreImage transcription text”Bad Moon Rising” 87 we ever saw of him. One daythe Inspector General came to check out our unit, and everybodywas completely uptight. When the guy saw Nelson’s bi… Show more… Show moreImage transcription text86 CHAPTER TWO Each day as he labored at his drawing board inthe rear of a quonset hut in a former railyard in downtown Saigon,Jack would play Hendrix music on his Akai reel-to-reel… Show more… Show moreImage transcription text”Bad Moon Rising” 85 tossed in the back, so heavywas the hit. Sometimes I can feel my heart runnin’ kinda hot.Maria would just smile her wrinkled and secret smile, … Show more… Show moreImage transcription text84 CHAPTER TWO 5. Sometimes, sodden with drink, or stretchedout in an opium haze, Sai- gon troops would stagger down Tu Do,the Graham Greene street of com- mercial affection, p… Show more… Show moreImage transcription text”Bad Moon Rising” 83 no less urgent, that I’m stonefree to do what I please. I got to got to got to get away right now!But there was nowhere to run, nowhere to hide. The e… Show more… Show moreImage transcription text82 CHAPTER TWO stay there. We took drugs as a sacrament, andHendrix music was like hymns.” And when the battle wasrenewed, “We’d just stand there and snap off ro… Show more… Show moreImage transcription text”Bad Moon Rising” 81 days, nearly thirty years earlier,in the fetid swamps and paddies of The Nam. He was a C.O., ahippie peace freak conscientious objector, opposed to … Show more… Show moreImage transcription text80 CHAPTER TWO In the following solo-really more like apolyvocal symphony- Roger Steffens, who worked with armyPsyOps near Saigon in 1968-69, weaves Hendrix’s mu… Show more… Show moreImage transcription text”Bad Moon Rising” 79 particularly. These were theheads, and this was the first place I really re- member hearingJimi’s guitar playing, which shocked me; I was into clas… Show more… Show moreImage transcription text”Bad Moon Rising” 77 Woodstock for an afternoon tosee the festival,” Dant recalled, describ ing the event in asingle word: muddy. “You could see the stage wa… Show more… Show moreImage transcription text70 CHAPTER TWO standing around their tank and the name ofthe tank was ‘Proud Mary. There was the whole tank crew, guyswith their shirts off. We felt like we were doing someth… Show more… Show moreImage transcription text”Bad Moon Rising” 65 tangle of arms and legs andlaughter. “Get on the Bullshit Band!” Mogerdyshouted, all excited, “They got tunes!” &qu… Show more… Show more Arts & HumanitiesEnglish