Dalton Narine
6 min readJun 23, 2020

Why I assigned myself to an assault mission in Vietnam

My buddies wiped out a VietCong sampan and I am over the moon with joy.

more than a little prescient in M.P. Alladin’s art class at the British Council when I’d carved it in wood a mere eight years ago at the age of 12! Eventually, the flax on the downstream current glittered off and took the argument out of sight, a good ways behind the American cargo boats, so big and fat down at the docks that they leave footprints in the water.

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.