Veteran's History Project - Allen D. Wolfe

Allen D. Wolfe

Specialist 5

U.S. Army

Vietnam

Editor's Note: This story is one of many American Veteran accounts published in The Sidney Sun-Telegraph. The writer, who is from Potter, is conducting the interviews as part of the Library of Congress' Veterans History Project.

In late 1966, Allen Wolfe was doing just fair, he said.

He had graduated from Scottsbluff High School and was living at home and seeing a young lady. He and his girlfriend had a long-time relationship, but it fell apart about then. Allen thought the best thing for him to do was to get away from the area for a while – do som...