Painful Echoes Of My Father's Ordeal; torture in Iraq vs torture in Viet Nam

Painful Echoes Of My Father's Ordeal

By Janet Schmidt Zupan

Sunday, March 20, 2005; Page B07

I recently found a letter written by my mother just after my dad left for his final tour in Vietnam. "It's been hectic," she began. "Norm's afraid he won't get things done. He tried to fix up the whole house and the corral before he left. I wanted him to forget it but he had to keep working. . . . He's had a severe headache which has him worried. . . . It broke my heart to see him climb into that airplane."