Robert Lunday is the author of Mad Flights (Ashland Poetry Press, 2002). "Fayettenam," a memoir of growing up Army during the Vietnam-war era, was a finalist this year for the Bakeless Creative Nonfiction Prize. A second excerpt can be found online at http://www.prickofthespindle.com (Vol. 2.4). He blogs at cleaningmyattic.blogspot.com.