Wayne Kline Born New Market, Virginia, 1949 Served in Vietnam, Marine Corps, 3d Battalion, 3d Regimnent, 3d Marine Division, Con Thein and Dong Ha, M-60 machine gunner, 1968
				4/2/68, 1980, color lithograph, 16.25 x 22.25 in.
		My nineteenth birthday: I remember being so consciously aware of that day, wondering how it had happened that I was standing in a fortified tower, looking into the DMZ and North Vietnam; and why. I remember thinking about home, school, friends, the very near living past. More than ten years later I made this image from headlines, articles, cartoons, the TV schedule, and the stock-market report from the Washington Post edition for April 2, 1968. I wanted to re-create the memory of that day as it was reported to the world by a newspaper that I had delivered house to house just a few years earlier. I added my natal astrological chart and veils of transparent color: all together elements that might determine why I was in that place at that terrible time.