Two Deaths

Dom Imus has died. He was 79.

Larry Heinemann died earlier this month. He wrote this about his time in Vietnam:

I was drafted into the Army in 1966 and served with the 25th Division in the middle of what the French called Cochin China, assigned to a mechanized infantry battalion. We rode armored personnel carriers. A.P.C.s; "tracks," we called them. We generally rode roughshod, armed to the teeth, through the countryside around Cu Chi and Dau Tieng, Trang Bang and Gau Da Ha and Tay Ninh, the Ho Bo and Bo Loi Woods. To make a long story short, we were not pleasant people and the war was not a pleasant business. I have no doubt we radicalized more southern Vietnamese to Ho chi Minh's national revolution than we "saved."

His novel Close Quarters was a pretty brutal novel about Vietnam,