Word: rosemead
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...letter bore the nominal heading "The President of the United States." It was addressed to Gary William Wilson, and it arrived at the blue stucco house in Rosemead, Calif., two days before Christmas. Its terms were cold, its message unmistakable. "Greeting: You are hereby ordered for induction into the Armed Forces of the United States." Gary Wilson, 23, a bright, ordinarily even-tempered student then just six months away from a hard-won geology degree at California State College at Los Angeles, blew up. He crushed the letter into a ball, jammed it into his pocket and stamped...
Wilson is a stocky (5 ft. 9 in., 170 Ibs.), bespectacled young man-and a true son of the U.S. middle class. His parents have lived in the same six-room house on North Earle Avenue in Rosemead for 25 years. There they raised their three children-Gary; Jimmy, 21, a Navy Reserve seaman aboard the aircraft carrier Oriskany (which left last week for Viet Nam); and Carol Ann, 20, a Cal State junior majoring in art. The father, William Wilson, 48, is a World War II Navy veteran and a partner in a window-shade manufacturing firm. He affords...