• First Ship

  • By: John Merriam
  • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
  • Length: 3 hrs and 40 mins

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First Ship

By: John Merriam
Narrated by: Virtual Voice
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Set in 1969-70, this is a chronicle of a young man's flight from the Viet Nam draft and potential arrest on unrelated charges. The story starts in Seattle and goes to the coasts of Maine, a vegetable oil factory in New Orleans, the red light district of wartime Saigon and ends up with hitchhiking on Route 66 to get back to Seattle from New Orleans.

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