Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Air Force

  • A day in Texas

    Steven PerezVirginia, United States It was the late 1980s. I had just been discharged from the Air Force and returned to my hometown of San Antonio, Texas, to look for an internal medicine practice to join. As I waited for responses to my inquiry letters, I found a job in a rural Texas emergency room…

  • Found and lost in Vietnam

    Lynn SadlerBurlington, North Carolina, United States War alters, shapes, and re-shapes far different ends even for members of the same family. Clarence Leon (“Boone”) McNeill (1947-1969) and Joseph Nelson Hargrove (1951-1975) are illustrative not only in that telling way but also salute the tenacity of Americans in honoring their veterans. Their names are inscribed on…