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Art Festival
GOOD MORNING VIETNAM HEROIC TOME BY WILMETTE’S MIKE DUFFY RECOUNTS HIS YEAR ON THE FRONT LINES. BY DAVID RUTTER THE NORTH SHORE WEEKEND
July 5
4 - 7 p.m.
July 6-7
10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Featuring botanic-inspired art
Taking the Army’s offer of officer candidate school was an easy choice at the time for Michael Duffy. Now a Wilmette resident, then he was a draftee making less than $100 a month as a private. Lieutenants could get nearly $800 a month. A year later, as the young lieutenant stepped off the C130 cargo plane at the massive base in Saigon, Vietnam, the deal didn’t seem quite as sweet. His introduction to Vietnam literally was an introduction to war. As he departed the plane at 2 a.m. on January 31, 1968, Viet Cong bullets were flying in every direction at Saigon’s main military airport. They were flying at him, over him, and past him. He had no weapon or jungle camouflage khakis; only a tan officer’s uniform. The Army lost his duffle bag and all his possessions so he ripped off his uniform, racing for a helicopter escape and bloodied his hand on the tarmac for good measure. It’s a story that could make a good book. Luckily for fans of history, his memoir about that year is a very good book. From Chicago to Vietnam: A Memoir of War was a rich enough narrative that even three years after it was published, Barnes & Noble selected it in May as one of the bookseller’s national “15 Heroic Books for Memorial Day.” Continued on PG 11
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Michael Duffy at his home in Wilmette. PHOTOGRAPHY BY ROBIN SUBAR
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