I have received a lot of mail and e-mail since the book came out in January of 2008, but nothing made my jaw drop on the floor like one I received in spring of '09.
A man wrote that his dad had been with Donn at Fort Sill, when they were in OCS. His dad and his mother, who lived near the base, became good friends with Donn. And when his parents had a baby boy in 1969, they named him Steven Donn.
The writer told me that he had never known much about "the guy he was named after," other than that he had been killed in Vietnam in 1968.
Steven Donn thanked me for the book, saying that he finally had some context for his name after forty years. And that he finally had an explanation when people continually ask him, "Is it Donald? Why two n's?"
My sister, my mother, and I are absolutely flabbergasted that there is someone named after Donn. We never would have known!
Friday, September 18, 2009
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What a great story!
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