A Summer in Time
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The watery mist covering my eyes blurred my vision as I blinked repeatedly to clear them. I could hardly make out whatever was in front of me, yet I could see a slight shadowy movement in the room. My mind was struggling to clear itself. As my eyes worked to focus, I began to have brief moments of clear vision. I was in a room with machines all around. A woman dressed in white was reading something on a clipboard staring occasionally at the monitors. On the wall in front of me I could see a brown framed picture of a field of daisies and a blue sky. It was the sort of thing you might buy at a local department store. I could hear a constant beeping sound. Shifting my head to the right I saw a tube coming out of a machine leading to my right arm. A plastic bag full of clear liquid was slowly dripping down the tube through a needle and into my arm. I had been around long enough to know I was attached to an IV. It didn’t take me long to realize I was in a hospital. “But why? How did I get here?” Numerous questions raced through my mind. I was struggling to remember.
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1965. A teenage romance launched innocently in a small New England town is ruptured by a war thousands of miles away. Told in alternating voices of the two main characters, Mike and Kate face the challenge of their lives when Mike’s tour of Vietnam plants him and his platoon daily in the cross-hairs of danger, severely wounding Mike, and leaving the reader wondering if he will survive or see his first love again. A Summer in Time captures all the longing two lovers feel at being separated by circumstances beyond their control, and the excitement of battle scenes evoked by the author from his own tours of Vietnam.
About the Author
A native of Western Massachusetts, first-time author David Smith captures the turbulence of the Vietnam era in an adventure and romance piece summoning from his own experience as an enlisted soldier in the mid ‘60s and early ‘70s. Smith reentered the U.S. Army as a chaplain 20 years after the story’s period, serving in New Jersey and Germany. He retired from the Vermont Army National Guard in 2003, and currently lives with his wife, Leigh, in St. Albans, Vermont, where he continues contact with many veterans who fought an unpopular war, and who still bear scars from it.