Heroes At The Massacre
March, 1993
Heroes at the MassacreCurious, isn't it, how the first thing you recall about someone you haven't seen in a long time is often the last thing you'd expect to remember?That's how it was that night at Due Pho in April 1968, when I ran into Butch Gruver, the only man I ever saw strain rubbing alcohol through a loaf of bread and drink it.Gruver's bread-to-booze trick, performed during a break in jungle-warfare training in Hawaii, pretty much convinced the rest of us that he wasn't like the rest of u...