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More than thirty years after the Vietnam war was lost, its aging American combat veterans still cope with the judgments of their non-serving peers and the fighting that goes on in their heads. All combat veterans do that, of course, but Vietnam had a special resonance all its own. Here are sixteen stories of middle-aged Texans who are not in prison, panhandling on street corners or sleeping under bridges. They have learned to live, with varying success, with their fate, although one also has murder on his mind. Another has a new baby whose birth surprisingly snuffed his father’s remaining war nightmares, except for one dream that gained new meaning as it moved to the daytime. Two have memento mori from the battlefield which they would like to be rid of, but only one may have finally found a way. And a widowed career officer spends his nights in the locked Alamo shrine seeking redemption for an old hero.******* Dick Stanley majored in English at the University of Maryland, and was drafted into the Army upon graduation in 1967. Dick was commissioned from Infantry Officer Candidate School at Fort Benning, Georgia, and commanded troops in the 6th Armored Cavalry Regiment at Fort Meade, Maryland. Trained in Special Warfare, he commanded a light-infantry advisory team in Viet Nam in 1969. He was later employed as a daily news journalist for thirty-four years, retiring in April 2006.