<p>On the day he graduated from college, he didn’t get a job offer or a celebration trip.<br>He got a draft notice.<br>Within 30 days, he would trade his cap and gown for a flight suit, and step into a war he thought would be over long before he ever saw combat.</p><p>By 1972, he was flying A-6 jets out of Thailand into Vietnam every single day—bombing by day to protect troops on the ground, and hunting supply trucks by night.<br>Seven of his closest squadron buddies never came home.<br>Fifty-five thousand Americans died, and when it all ended, it felt like the country simply walked away.</p><p>He came back from Vietnam bitter, silent, and carrying memories he rarely shared with anyone.<br>And then, years later, his mother got cancer.<br>On a visit home to Iowa, he asked her a simple question:<br>‘Mom… did you ever save any of those letters I sent you from the war?’</p><p>What she told him next—and what he found in a dusty box in the attic—changed the way he remembered everything.<br>This is <em>Letters to Mom</em>.</p><p>visit: <a href="https://www.lifelessonsbooks.net/my-book" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">www.lifelessonsbook.net</a></p><p>visit: <a href="https://www.chucktuck.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">www.TheRawVibe.com</a></p><p></p>

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Letters to Mom: A Vietnam Pilot’s Story of War, Loss, and Love

DEC 3, 202530 MIN
THE RAW VIBE

Letters to Mom: A Vietnam Pilot’s Story of War, Loss, and Love

DEC 3, 202530 MIN

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<p>On the day he graduated from college, he didn’t get a job offer or a celebration trip.<br>He got a draft notice.<br>Within 30 days, he would trade his cap and gown for a flight suit, and step into a war he thought would be over long before he ever saw combat.</p><p>By 1972, he was flying A-6 jets out of Thailand into Vietnam every single day—bombing by day to protect troops on the ground, and hunting supply trucks by night.<br>Seven of his closest squadron buddies never came home.<br>Fifty-five thousand Americans died, and when it all ended, it felt like the country simply walked away.</p><p>He came back from Vietnam bitter, silent, and carrying memories he rarely shared with anyone.<br>And then, years later, his mother got cancer.<br>On a visit home to Iowa, he asked her a simple question:<br>‘Mom… did you ever save any of those letters I sent you from the war?’</p><p>What she told him next—and what he found in a dusty box in the attic—changed the way he remembered everything.<br>This is <em>Letters to Mom</em>.</p><p>visit: <a href="https://www.lifelessonsbooks.net/my-book" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">www.lifelessonsbook.net</a></p><p>visit: <a href="https://www.chucktuck.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">www.TheRawVibe.com</a></p><p></p>