Leonard Pitts Jr.: He was a Vietnam vet named Greg
by Leonard Pitts Jr., Tribune Content Agency
May 30, 2021
2 minutes
It’s not every day you interview someone who tells you he wants to kill himself.
He was a Vietnam veteran named Greg, a man with haunted eyes and a soft voice filled with the horror of his experience in Southeast Asia: the jungle rot, the lost friends, the children rigged to explode when some unsuspecting GI scooped them up.
Greg limped from an old leg wound and was fighting doctors who
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