LAKELAND, Fla. (WFLA) — Terry Richardson grew up in Michigan. Like many of his generation, he expected to be drafted and sent to Vietnam. Richardson decided to beat the draft and signed up to join the Army.
“Well, I graduated high school in the 1966 and I was pretty sure that I was gonna get drafted cause I didn’t have the money to go to college,” said Richardson.
He joined in May of 1967 and was sent for basic training at Ft. Knox, then infantry training in Alabama and NCO school in Georgia before shipping off for Vietnam…