With phone and internet technology, it's easy to look back at the recent
years of our lives in great detail. The more distant past is harder.
There may be fragments—a photo, a news clipping, a family story—but
rarely is there enough to recapture what it really felt like in that
other time.
Unless, like a young Jim Hubbard, you mailed a letter
home every week or two, from the time you left your Michigan home for
college in 1961 until you returned from the Vietnam War in late 1968,
and your parents and wife saved them all, and your daughter chanced upon
them in a bag half a century later.
The result is a treasure,
an honest and often humorous time capsule of study and play at three
Michigan colleges; of family, love, and marriage; and of the political
and cultural touchstones that shaped the ‘60s—especially the Vietnam War
during a year that changed everything for Captain Hubbard and his
country. For military and social history buffs, for veterans and their
families, and for readers of a certain age, Jim’s letters open a window
to a bygone era.
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