From Pittsburgh to Nam

There was no shortage of bad news. . . in towns across America in 1967.
And it was no different in the Pittsburgh neighborhoods of Elliott, Sheraden and the West End, where the author, Tom Fife lived. Fife shares happy boyhood memories of growing up in the late 1950's in his working class family like playing army with other boys in the nearby fields of those blue collar neighborhoods. Life, he writes, was wonderful. Our neighborhoods were safe. There were no dangers. There was almost nothin...