Speaker 1: Welcome to the WBZ book Club. I'm Jordan Rich. A
Speaker 1: few years back I interviewed Tom Keating, a local author
Speaker 1: who wrote a book called Yesterday's Soldier, A Passage from
Speaker 1: Prayer to the Vietnam War, the story of a man
Speaker 1: who went from an infantry officer candidate to a conscientious
Speaker 1: objector in Vietnam. Well, Tom recently sent me his latest
Speaker 1: project called Elephants, Secrets and Submarines Stories and Essays, some
Speaker 1: of them pertaining to the Vietnam War era, but not all.
Speaker 1: Stories that bring us back to the nineteen sixties the
Speaker 1: Vietnam era, and as he does, Tom pays tribute to
Speaker 1: the Vietnam War veterans so often forgotten. Part memoir, part fiction,
Speaker 1: and even a poem called Pandemic Blues, a lament during
Speaker 1: the COVID pandemic. Fine writing from a thoughtful veteran who
Speaker 1: cares about people and has served his country well. Elephants,
Speaker 1: Secrets and Submarines Stories and Essays by Tom Keating. That's
Speaker 1: another edition of the book Club. WBZ, Boston's news radio