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"LAST TRAIN RUNNIN" is R.D.
Foster’s first published book. This novel takes place in the mid-to-late
1960’s when America was in great turmoil. The story follows the lives of two
young men as they try to cope with their own separate, but parallel worlds.
Everett Blalock was a brilliant
singer/songwriter/ musician and the leader of a three-piece folk group
called "LastTrain Runnin." The very popular trio was well on the road to
success, and was even touted as being ‘The-Next-Big-Thing’ in Folk Music.
However, as fate would have it, the bottom fell out of the folk market due
to the rise of Rock & Roll, and Everett found himself broke with nowhere to
go. Everett had fallen in love with a beautiful young co-ed, whose wealthy
parents didn’t like him at all. With their political connections, the young
man who wrote and sang about peace and love, suddenly found himself on top
of the Selective Service list. Terrified of being drafted into the Army and
becoming an infantryman in Vietnam, Everett instead enlisted in the Navy on
the assurance by a recruiter, that with his college degree, there was no way
he would be an infantryman in the war.
Everett’s story begins as a squad
of US Marines prepare to establish a listening-post on a small hilltop in
South Vietnam. Everett Blalock is the Navy Corpsman assigned to the detail.
David Westerfield was a journalist
and student at the University of Texas. With his affluent family’s
connections, David had managed to avoid the draft and was active in the
anti-war movement. He was one of those guys who always had good intentions,
but seemed like was always getting into trouble, especially when it came to
writing about politics, and having to depend on his folks to get him out.
Trying to help him avoid trouble, David’s editor-in-chief, an old friend of
his father, assigned him the job of writing a story about ‘Whatever Happened
To’ "Last Train Runnin," the band that had been called the ‘Next-Big-Thing
in Folk Music.’ Little did he know that writing about politics was child’s
play compared to what was to come.
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NEWSPAPER AND MAGAZINE
ARTICLES BY
R. D. FOSTER |
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SEARCHING FOR BILL BRYAN
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
35 YEARS LATER
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MISSING DOG TAG FOUND
AND RETURNED
35 YEARS LATER
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AUDIE MURPHY DAY
A SALUTE TO
COLLIN COUNTY HEROES
OF THE VIETNAM WAR
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(Includes Links to Audie Murphy
Websites) |
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THE DAY THE DA
NANG
AMMO DUMP BLEW
ARTICLE and
PHOTOS |
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KHE SANH TIGER STORY
STORY and PHOTO |
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McKinney Veterans Memorial
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