Letters from a Drug User in Vietnam 1970

[DiGilio]

Heres the stuff from the letters I posted in the latest finds section.

 

They were written by a Air Force enlisted man in Vietnam (Da Nang) around 1970 to a girl he knew from back home. The writer was a heavy drug user in Vietnam. He was also sending marijuana home in the mail. Im posting these excerpts because they are a good first-hand account of some of what went on. He talks about drugs and getting high in pretty much every letter. Many were written while he was high. Besides that he talks a lot about music, some poetry and how friends are doing. Its clear from the letters he did some drugs as a civilian but really got into it in Vietnam to escape and cope with being there. Mentions using marijuana, acid, heroin, cocaine, speed, and opium. The letters arent in any order and the majority arent dated.

 

This is from an early letter.

 

This is a from a letter written later on.

 

Parts of another letter

 

[DiGilio]

This was written while he was in a hospital for a back injury.

 

From another letter from when he was in the hospital.

[DiGilio]

This page shows tape marks from where he had taped two joints to the paper. He sometimes sent joints in his letters and also seems like he sent packages of them as well.

Poem he wrote about the freedom bird

 

Another poem

[Mr. Standfast]

Thanks for posting! Very interesting, if crazy

[Jack's Son]

Man, what a troubled soul. I wonder how much of this was caused by the war, or how much of this was just a weak personality. ?

[Niner Alpha]

Do you have any idea what happened to him after Vietnam?

[Jack's Son]

Do you have any idea what happened to him after Vietnam?

That's a great question!! What a fantastic research project!