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"Mornings on the Mekong" and "Home After Iraq" on Valley Writers Read

There are two stories on this edition of Valley Writers Read.

In our first story, "Mornings on the Mekong", author Lee K. Self recounts life on a small naval vessel on the Mekong River during the Vietnam War.

In our second story, "Home After Iraq",  Natalie Chavez-Ruiz describes dealing with her husband's post-traumatic stress syndrome after he returned home from Iraq.

Franz Weinschenk, his parents and his older brother Fritz were indeed lucky to get out of Germany just before World War II. For a while they lived in Brooklyn, N.Y., before moving to Madera, CA. He graduated from Madera High and Fresno State. From 1948 to 1952 he taught at Edison High School in Fresno after which he was drafted and served in the US Army for two years.