Voices: A Retrospective on the Vietnam War and the Peace Corps

ISBN-10: 1974526372
ISBN-13: 9781974526376
Series: Voices
Pages: 186
Language: English
Published: 2017-08-12
Author: Jack Boyd

Description

The 1960's are widely known to be one of the most tumultuous times in modern U. S. history. JFK could not escape the "red scare" that was spreading across the Western countries, but he did believe in spreading the energy and goodwill that materialized in his establishment of the Peace Corps. The author, idealistic, like so many other young adults of this vibrant time found the Peace Corps a way to serve his country as an alternative to military service in a far away land. Good will was the mantra of service many who were forever were transformed by living among people so unlike them on the surface but so similar as human beings with all the same needs, longings, and dreams. This is one mans account of living and teaching in Kenya, East Africa for two years. Those two years are tearfully remembered for the assassinations of MLK and Robert Kennedy, war in the Middle East, and urban riots in places like Detroit where he was born.