"Phoenix to LA" Highlights Coming-of-Age in the Late 1960's and a First Hand Account of Treating Heroin Abuse in Vietnam
08/15/10By Marty McMorrow
After 39 years treating people with disabilities, Marty McMorrow fesses up about coming-of-age in the 1960's, protesting the War, hitchiking across country, and treating same-age soldiers for heroin abuse in the late stages of the Vietnam War.
At age 18, Marty McMorrow went off to Chicago for college in the aftermath of the 1968 Democratic National Convention. A year later he was actively protesting the War and hitchhiking across country to the Denver Pop Festival and Haight-Ashbury in San Francisco. By 20, he had dropped out of school and found himself in an Army recruiter's office. A few short months later he was treating same-age US soldiers who had become addicted to heroin as a barely-trained Psychiatric Social Worker in Vietnam. "Phoenix to LA"...a true story of a young man's journey out of the 1960's, is a non-stop ride through a critical period in modern history. It chronicles the impact of well-known social events like the 1970 Draft Lottery, Kent State, and the Incident at Kickapoo Creek on a young life. The book is sensitively written, living history for children of the sixties, their children, and their children's children. And considering that today's young people are currently impacted by another prolonged and increasingly unpopular War in the poppy capital of the world, it could not be more timely. McMorrow believes that the book may stir precious memories among those who were there and serve as a textbook of sorts for those who were not.
More Books by Marty McMorrow
Phoenix to LA
Getting Ready to Help
The Helping Exchange: PEARL
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