SUMMER REFLECTIONS ON PEACE THROUGH JUSTICE; FLINT TO IBIZA
In my formative years during undergraduate time at St. Louis University, I confronted the world as a young adult for the first time. The War in Vietnam affected me personally, in that I was required to register for the Draft. As a full time college student, I was deferred; that is I was not called to enlist while a student. My childhood next door neighbor, Gary Miller, chose not to attend full time college; he was Drafted (or perhaps enlisted), served in the War and earned a Purple Heart. My cousin Tommy married Barb upon graduation from John Carroll; he received one of the last 'marriage deferments.' I found out later in life that my friend Geoff Neithercut received a deferment to go to Seminary. My father had served in the military during World War II as had my uncles, fathers of neighbors and friends. Growing up in the fifties meant movies about the War, T.V. Westerns, B.B. guns and nuclear war shelters. My grade school (St. Luke's ) had as its mascot , The Bombradie