Born Enid, Oklahoma, 1941
Served in Vietnam, Navy, assigned to the Marine Corps,
7th Fleet Special Landing Forces, 228th Battalion,
Quang Tri Province, Da Nang, and the DMZ,
battalion surgeon, 1968-69
War Songs: Safewater Buoy 2, 1995, incised porcelain with black matte glaze and platinum lustre, 19 x 19 x 24 in., master ceramacist Stephen Freedman
Incised into War Songs: Safewater Buoy 2,
a poem written in Vietnam, 1968:
Do you remember the day I surprised you
at the beer party in Da Nang and we raced
along the barbed wire beach until our
fatigues were so green with happy sweat
that we ended the game with a swim out
by the fishing buoy and that night after
waving goodbye from the helicopter I sat
and chuckled over your jokes
while they killed you.
