I Fought a War That Wasn't Mine

My name is Joseph Smith I am a seventeen year old-African American- young man- I just graduated high school and was hired at the Mill. I Still live at home with my Mother, Father and three siblings but feel it is time to move out on my own and take responsibility of my life- as a man should; my older brother has made different plans for me though. "I can't believe my own brother would deceive me so easily; for fear of his own destiny." Finding myself in the Vietnam War- fighting to stay ali...