By Peggy Laizure
Transcript Staff Writer
Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 4890 will hold its Thanksgiving dinner 5 to 7 p.m. Saturday at Golden Corral. Cost of the dinner is $13 per person.
Honored guests will be life members of Post 4890 and District Commander Gordon Wheeler and his wife.
Bill McCloud, author of the book, "What Should We Tell Our Children About Vietnam," will speak. McCloud is a retired teacher of the Pryor School District and is a Vietnam veteran.
He served in Vietnam March 1968 through March 1969 as the flight operations coordinator, specialist 5th class, for the 147th assault support helicopter company, based near the coastal city of Vung Tau.
While teaching at Pryor, he incorporated his experiences into this junior high lesson plan. McCloud sent surveys to schools to see at what grade students were taught about the Vietnam war. He also sent letters to others that were involved in the war.
The 128 replies he received included combat soldiers, former President Jimmy Carter, Barry Goldwater, Robert McNamara and mothers who lost a son in the war.
He compiled the replies into a book that was published by the University of Oklahoma Press in 2000.
The book is available at the OU Press.
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