In his youth, Randy Ark enjoyed an idyllic childhood growing up in the rural parts of Clark County, Ohio.
That feeling of innocence was shattered when Ark became a medic in Vietnam, getting an up close and personal look at the atrocities of war.
Ark, 77, recently wrote two memoirs about his experiences, “Everyone Has a Story: A Combat Medic’s Tale,” and “The Autobiography of Randall W. Ark,” which reflects upon a youth spent in west-central Ohio in the 1950s and ‘60s…