European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 7, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Magazines a photo of Linda w a mews the Tountas Nhes of language is poetry Ralph Lacharity with children the and Anno Mari humpty dumpty poet poet As Camp Follower All the world cherishes a listener and Moat of it loves to be watched. From my earliest Days As a draftee i found military As earthy accessible willing garrulous and vulnerable. I like being around americans under tire particularly cultural the fire that Hies in the face of the hidebound. I like to watch my countrymen awaken from deep bleeps of certitude. They do so in Alt the nooks and byways overseas staring in sidelong stupefaction end intensity at a world that made for their own they have been manipulated exploited. Isolated docked Dizzie and drained. Ever and again the system won. Ana yet look at theml la steel look at their children a visiting relative so what a persistent spirit in the face of so much withering worldly Contention even the tiniest overseas Bailiwick becomes cosmopolitan on the instant overloaded and deeply be damned simply by one s listening and watching. Tuning in the poet s modes. Ralph Lacharity by Daryl e. Green Kaiserslautern bureaus he tool of the poet is words the lash is of Lon id arli ulale the meaning or what a appear to be meaningless events in a language that is at the same Lime common and unique. I think the Loun Lawhead of language is poetry said Ralph Lacharity. To be 9 Man situated of the Fountain of language is a very challenging place to Lacharity with his dark hair coming Oil a receding hairline and sweeping into a Short Pony Tail could a seen As a House husband military dependent lather and Pool. But he will eloquently defend his right to live a life free of the restrictions of such labels. Man i Don l live my life under those categories he said in Lan Stuhl West Germany through an almost menacing smile that revealed a slight Gap Between his Teeth. I Don l consider myself a military dependent i consider tha military my dependent. 1 Don t think my Wile a. Linda Lacharity a nurse at tha lands Uhl army regional medical Center would hang in the army one second without my support. The military depends on the voluntary participation of a whole lot of so called dependents. I dont consider Rny Wolf a House husband i consider myself a lather to my children 9-year-old thai and 7-year old Anne Marie and a the s partner to my always the poet and sometimes the Paradox Lacharity sees fatherhood As an act of balancing Luck against human frailties and Hie experiences. I m Lucky because i can be there Lor he said about his children Bui i blow it every Day because i m still humpty dumpty trying to reassemble he said so i do pass on my faults to my children the same As any other ii was advice Isom lather that put this hum in dumpy in an environment that contributed to his Tumble from the Wall. Lacharity like Many Young men of draft i age during the Vietnam War had wrestled with the urge to find a Way out. And when his number came up in the draft he Lem the Pool Halls and jazz clubs of new York City to which he had made his pilgrimage As a teen Ager and went Home to Akron. Ohio to seek some Lal Herly advice. He said to me. Knowing that i had pretensions Ond desires of being a writer he says the Way i see in is if you re serious about being a writer there s no Way you can Back away from this thing because you la want to know what life is and Ofiero s no Way you re going to know about what life is unless you Lake some risks " so Lacharity succumbed to the draft ironically he believes his writing kept him out of Vietnam i used to do a lot of Public information office work for the battalion and the division. They appreciated my writing skills. And in Tacl that s Why i never went to Nam. Because my particular commander liked seeing his name in the army times. I m sure that s the sole reason i did t though a never us any combat he did see the effects of Battle. I discovered the concept of odder while wailing in for Hood Texas and watching the people come Back he said. The people who were psychologically butchered physically maimed whatever the Case was. I did t see no healthy people coming they All had become expendable tools of an uncaring system according to Lacharity and humbly s precarious balance on the Wall was giving Way Lacharity met his wife while they were both in the army. When their Lime was up they both attended Kent state University in Ohio. They were Here on May 4. 1970. When National guardsmen fired on a group of protesters against the Vietnam War. Killing Lour people this a s thought by Many to have Crystal sized the Awakening of the nation to the divisiveness of an unpopular Star the o enl broke Lacharity s Tail in the monday september 7, 19b7 american machine
