Class helps Vietnam veterans heal war's wounds, By SU BACON

Class helps Vietnam veterans heal war's wounds, By SU BACON

(EXCERPT) Special to The Star

Time does not heal all wounds.

Thirty years, in fact, have done little to ease Bob Robinson's
suffering. He still feels the pain of emotional injuries — the
price he paid to serve his country in Vietnam in 1970 and '71.

Robinson spent a year in the jungle with other soldiers defending a
village in Southeast Asia in an area he described as so brutal that no
clergyman ever visited them.

“I keep stories inside that no one knows,” he said.

Robinson and his wife, Jill Robinson of Kansas City,...

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