Five decades later, Leroy Maldonado still remembers the song he and his high school buddies sang as they rode the train from Denver down to Texas for basic training. “Wild Thing,” by The Troggs ...
They were just kids, lost in a sea of U.S. Army draftees being sent off to war, crowded into the train station in Detroit waiting to be sent off to who knows where. It was May 1966 and the Vietnam War ...