Sandwich was where my Cape Cod life began. Easter 1967, my dad took me for a walk and told me he would be going to Vietnam. He explained Vietnam to me; I asked him why the people who make the wars don\u2019t fight them (some things don\u2019t change). It was his job he said. Pretty much the end of the discussion, other than my fear \u201cwill you be killed?\u201d He would be leaving in July. In the meantime, he would have some time with the family. Later that spring he told me we were going on vacation. He was very excited and told me to guess where as he gave me a hint, \u201cCape\u2026\u201d \u201cCanaveral!\u201d I cried. No, not quite. Cape Cod. Never heard of it. \u201cWhere the heck is that?\u201d I asked. Needless to say, I wasn\u2019t impressed. We took plenty of trips to Massachusetts to visit my Irish family, so Massachusetts wasn\u2019t such a big whoop for a vacation to me, even if it wasn\u2019t at my gran\u2019s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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