I remember serving in Vietnam in that war, and many of us at the major Lieutenant Colonel, colonel level were frustrated that no one in the U.S. wanted to debate it that way.

I remember being a kid and the Vietnam War was huge and looking at Watergate.

I remember when I wanted every pitch to be a strike.

I remember fear and I remember the potential of nuclear war.

I remember when I was at Brandeis, Geoffrey Wolff, he was a great fiction-writing teacher. He was the writer-in-residence, and for those of us who wanted to be writers, you were so excited to be in the same hallway as him.

That's the way I remember them, heading for an exit.