Viet Nam
January 10th ~ 1:30-3:00
Dennis Jensen will be at the Castleton Community Center on January 10th at 1:30-3:00 to talk about the book “A Bright Shining Lie,” by Neil Sheehan and Dennis’ personal experience in the Viet Nam War.

Dennis retired from the Rutland Herald in 2010 after 33 years with the newspaper. He continues to serve as the outdoor editor for the Herald and the Montpelier-Barre Times Argus. He was drafted into the U.S. Army in 1966, volunteered for the paratroopers and served in Vietnam with the 101st Airborne Division in 1967 and ’68.

Dennis will talk about the year he spent in a country so green, so lush, it would be the envy of Vermont. He will talk about the men, the dubious mission and the impression, very early on, that something was very, very wrong there. I will also talk about the greatest book to come out of the war, “A Bright Shining Lie,” by Neil Sheehan, published in 1988.”