Much of the Vietnam literature details the blood-and-guts atrocity of the conflict, filling in the blanks for those of us who watched it at home on TV each night. Those were high expectations.
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Vietnam was not on his radar when he enlisted on Jan. Vietnam was an unavoidable and painful truth and getting out alive and in one piece was the first test of my young abilities. Gaulman, as luck would have it, is also from Queens and North Amityville, and kept a diary of his tour. His recipe for maintaining sanity included working hard at his job, and using pot, commercial sex, liquor, beer, and reading.
The Marine Corps tacitly encouraged the use of liquor and prostitutes, but not pot, as a morale booster, Gaulman says today. Close reading of his diary shows us how, page by page, he used reading books recommended by his colleagues — Ayn Rand, Malcolm X, among others — to build his own defense perimeters, to learn how the world worked, and to learn more.
At one point, a eureka moment comes unbidden: He and his wife Saundra moved full-time to Oak Bluffs this year. Gaulman is not a Marine lifer, never was. He thinks maybe his age, two years older than most recruits, played a part. But I already knew who I was, what I was, and I resisted [conversion].
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