"The Making and Un-making of a Marine"

by Lawrence Winters

"Nothing Means Nothing"

a play written by Larry Winters
that addresses some of the hidden questions of veterans lives.

This play is dedicated to my good friend, Dave Deyo.

The play begins...

Narrator: Some of us might remember the saying that came back with our soldiers from the Vietnam War. "It don't mean nothing." Some vets say this was their way of spitting in death's face. Death spit back at some 58,000 of them and they never returned home. Today spittle still drips from Satan's chin as we pass the number 100,000 Vietnam vets who have committed suicide. The war saying seems to mean life don't mean nothing. Maybe if soldier's lives were as valuable as the lives of us who are sending them, we'd be more careful where we told them to go and more caring when they came home.

Let me show you a story about a couple Vietnam vets who were never able to find the switch to turn off their war.

The video above was recorded at a dramatic reading on
Friday, June 15, 2007
at the Pumpkin Hollow Retreat Center
Craryville, New York
for Ed Tick's Soldier’s Heart Veterans Return Retreat
with: Tom Nolan, Mike Harelick and Evan Davis

For information about that retreat:

Mentoring the Soul Calendar: Soldier’s Heart Veterans Return Retreat

Pumpkin Hollow website: Soldier’s Heart, Veterans Return Retreat with Ed Tick

The Friday, May 30, 2008 (Memorial Day) performance at the Unison Arts & Learning Center New Paltz, New York was presented to a SOLD OUT house!

Written and directed by Larry Winters
Performances by Tom Nolan, Mike Harelick and Evan Davis
and a poetic reading by the author, Larry Winters.

Music and sound by Rich Samilin
Videography by Michael Enright

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