(Editor’s note: Paul Edwin Figg, 75, of Locust Hill passed away on Tuesday, June 28, 2022. His friend Jane Cutler delivered the tribute below at his funeral. “The USA pulled out of the Vietnam War in 1973,” Cutler wrote the Sentinel via email this month. “However, for many of our veterans who suffered post-traumatic stress disorder — PTSD — the war rages within them, especially as they approach death. … Perhaps [this tribute] will be of interest to your readership.”)
The author Madeline L’Engle wrote that each of us is every age we’ve ever been. Inside our aging body is still a spark of us when we were youngsters, teens, young adults and so on. I remember Paul Edwin Figg at the young age of 19: a man too young to vote in 1966, was drafted and sent to fight in the jungles of Vietnam. His sister Nancy (Freyer of Hardyville) asked that I include the following (the source of which is unknown):
“What Is A Veteran?
