Someday Our Kids Will Not Believe Us About Any of This

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My father graduated from high school in 1967 and, with his two best friends, immediately enlisted in the armed forces, like his father, like his grandfather, like every Leitch boy as far back as anyone could remember. The anti-war movement was in full swing by then, but in Mattoon, Illinois, a Central Illinois farm town mostly known for having an exit of its very own off Interstate 57, none of…