Veterans Day

“Did you ever see the movie, Forrest Gump?” asked Wayne Mitchel during the course of our interview for this piece. “Watching Forrest Gump’s experience in Vietnam was like watching myself on-screen. As an inexperienced 19-year-old kid, just like Gump, everything was new, every event was especially vivid. Some days, like Gump, I just hoped I would make it through the day. Oddly, my biggest fear wasn’t getting killed – my biggest fear in Vietnam was becoming disabled, mentally or physically.”