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The author’s mother with Pete and Cis (1943). Photo by Ben Stone; author’s collection. The author’s father (circa 1959). Photo by Jim Rollins, Malden Air Force Base, Missouri; author’s collection. The author (age 3), second from left, with her siblings, left to right: Cis (age 11), Pete (age 12), and Holly (age 5). Photographer unknown; author’s collection. Pete (age 11), right, with unidentified friend in a toy car given to him by his maternal grandfather, Popeye. Equipped with an accelerator, horn, brakes, and forward and reverse gears, the car was manufactured by the company Popeye founded. Margo Bradley’s father later became its president. Author’s collection. [35.172.110.179] Project MUSE (2024-03-29 11:46 GMT) Pete, probably on his fifteenth birthday, in Dexter, Missouri. Author’s collection. The author with Pete (circa 1960). Author’s collection. Pete, left, with unidentified fellow members of the Wesleyan University yacht club (date unknown). Photographer unknown; author’s collection. The author, with a book and a cat on her lap, around the age when Pete left for Vietnam, in 1963. Author’s collection. The International Voluntary Services education team (Summer 1963) at the ivs house in Saigon, left to right: Don Fuller, Phyllis Colyer, Dick Carlton, Louise Ross, Chuck Ross, Carlie Allender, Carl Stockton, Anne Hensley, Walt Robertson, Renate McDowell, John Sommer, Willi Meyers, Pete Hunting, Bob Biggers, and Gene Stoltzfus. On the back of this postcard, Pete wrote a birthday greeting to his mother and asked her to send his Chinese dictionary and telescope. Photographer unknown; author’s collection. From an unwritten postcard found among Pete’s papers; the caption reads, “Village notabless [sic] in festival dress.” Author’s collection. After the bloody coup d’état that deposed South Vietnam’s president, Ngo Dinh Diem, and his brother Nhu in November 1963, Pete sent a postcard to reassure his mother. Author’s collection. [35.172.110.179] Project MUSE (2024-03-29 11:46 GMT) Fishing village, Phan Rang Bay, Vietnam (circa 1963). Photo by Pete Hunting; courtesy of Sue Patterson. Fishing boats, Phan Rang Bay (circa 1963). Photo by Pete Hunting; author’s collection. On the back of this photo, Pete described the scene: “Stern oarsman stands on port gunwhale and sculls the boat. . . . Took this while crossing a bay on this little ferry. Chap’s leaning way out over water. [He] posed and nearly fell in the salty brine. About a minute later I discovered the bottom was made of rice straw; saw it undulating up and down beneath floorboards and was quite excited until I found it was made that way.” Probably Phan Rang Bay, Vietnam (circa 1963). Photo by Pete Hunting; author’s collection. Vietnamese women hauling manioc to market (circa 1963). On the back of the photo, Pete described the pole and baskets as the “Vietnamese equivalent of wheelbarrows, easier to haul ‘in the long run.’ (Last couple of days have been bad for puns.) The road to Nha Trang (Vietnamese Riviera). Ate a lobster a good 18 inches long, no kidding, I was so hungry for lobster and good seafood. Ate at François’, of course.” Photo by Pete Hunting; author’s collection. On the back of this photo, Pete, described the smiling woman: “Cham lady. Vietnamese women don’t carry their baskets on their heads, or wear such flowing gowns.” Ninh Thuan Province, Vietnam (circa 1963). Photo by Pete Hunting; author’s collection. Pete with unidentified colleagues (date unknown). Author’s collection. “Montagnard stud heading to market to sell his kindling.” Pete wrote on the back of this photo. “Will get about 75 cents for it all, takes all day to go back and forth to market, takes about a day to collect the wood.” Ninh Thuan Province (circa 1963). Photo by Pete Hunting; author’s collection. Pete and his first ivs stationmate, Chuck Fields, light a fire to smoke fish in a charcoal kiln. Ninh Thuan Province (date unknown). Photographer unknown, U.S. Operations Mission; author’s collection. [35.172.110.179] Project MUSE (2024-03-29 11:46 GMT) Pete with unidentified children, probably Ninh Thuan Province (date unknown). Author’s collection. Bricklaying 101. “They didn’t know you’ve got to soak bricks in water so’s they won’t soak all the water out of mortar,” Pete wrote on the back of this photo. “Didn’t believe me till I showed them how easy it would be for somebody...