Thomas “Boogie” Bryant was a young man when he went to war, and he’s an old man now. But he remembers the rats.
“I know this friend of mine, he got bit by a rat and had to have eight or 10 shots in his stomach for rabies,” Bryant said, 60 years and a whole lot of living after first signing up for the military.
But before the rats, before the Agent Orange, the thump of the guns and the ship to Vietnam, Thomas Bryant loved to dance…