On Monday – yes, I’m slow getting around to this – Flipboard selected Memoir Writing: No. 9 It’s Time to Write as one of its cover stories.

Here’s how it looked:

The photo is a snapshot of two pages from one of my clipping books. It shows other pix of ambush victims in Laos in the early 1970s.

I noted in the post that these and other photos were sufficient inspiration to try to write a memoir of that period. The product, of course, is HIDDEN WAR: A Memoir of America’s Secret Crusade in Laos, an unpublished but still aspiring book.