Vietnam Follies

Dalton Narine
6 min readNov 7, 2020

VETERANS DAY 2020, Something to salivate on

The flame rose and fell, the skinny smoke hanging until the fat chin-mounted guns and rockets found their targets……..and the light came through the sky.

To HELL AND BACK TO NAM

Yesterday, I awoke to the anniversary of my hospitalization at a New Jersey hospital upon my return as a combat controller in Vietnam.

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Dalton Narine

Disabled Vietnam veteran. Wrote for The Village Voice. Won writing awards at The Miami Herald & Ebony magazine. On final draft of first screenplay.