“In my childhood the only exotic, exciting, beautiful things that my mother shared with me were her military times. She was a WAC, and she met my father in the Philippines. She told me about the South Pacific, about serving with MacArthur, about New Guinea and Australia.” So begins a short article Army Captain David Christian dictated to writer Margot Achtereerg in 1981, more than 30 years ago. Captain Christian, at that time, had been named the most highly decorated veteran of the Vietnam … [Read more...]