Events

Sat 6/4  2pm-3pm Curtis Gay discusses his memoir:  One More Sunrise:  Memoir of a Combat Infantryman in Viet Nam After spending a year in Germany as a security guard with the 50th Ordnance Company, Curtis Gay went to Viet Nam as a Private First Class. Six months later he was a Sergeant in the 25th Infantry Division and experienced some of the most intense fighting of the war. This book is his story. Curtis spent a year as a Drill Sergeant at Fort Dix, New Jersey before leaving the Army in 1968. After a long career in the electrical industry, he is retired and lives in Durham, North Carolina with his wife. The author describes his book: “My memoir is not the typical book about Viet Nam. I was not a Special Operations Commando nor was I a high-ranking officer directing thousands of troops. I was just one of the two and a half million Americans who went to Viet Nam and only wished to survive for a year and then go home.   Special care was taken in the writing of this book to make it readable for people who have never been in the military. I have tried to explain to the families and friends of Viet Nam veterans what the experience was like for the average infantryman. Most veterans find it difficult and painful to talk about those times. I hope to enlighten those close to the veteran who wonder what the heck happened to their man over there and to encourage the vet to tell his own story.”