(“The new job will mean a great increase in operations, but I’m looking forward to getting out and doing some work — it makes the time go quicker.”)Stacy served during the Vietnam War. (Family photos)In a letter to his grandmother, Bill Stacy wrote approvingly of his cousin John, who was working with the Peace Corps in a leper colony. “I’m the only destroyer, but I guess one black sheep in the family isn’t a bad average.”The photos included ones of Bill Stacy before the war and during it. The new Ken Burns-Lynn Novick documentary on the Vietnam War prompted them to take the papers out and get in touch with me. The PBS documentary has a lot of us revisiting the Vietnam War.

Source: Washington Post October 01, 2017 20:26 UTC