The Last Photograph: A Story of Brothers

Two brothers at war with themselves and each other come of age in the Vietnam era. One becomes a soldier, the other a conscientious objector. After the war a mysterious whisper leads them past impossible odds to become brothers the way brothers were meant to be. A triumphant story based on the author’s life. “He rode into view, filling the eyepiece from Stetson to chaps; a bearded, long haired, outlaw of a man. Eyes narrowed, he fixed me in his gaze from beneath his weathered hat brim. He looked the part he played in life: a philosophical poet cowboy and Vietnam vet, who loved to sit under the stars with a shot of Jack Daniel’s, listening to coyotes howl, talking of Indian legend, archaeology, and the origin of the species; and on rare occasions among family and friends, expounding his troubled understanding of God. ‘Click,’ went the shutter.’ Well done,’ whispered the voice.”