Robert Stave

A soldier’s story, RA’s US’s NG’s … The PFC’s, Speedy Fours, Shit Can burners, KP and dining Room Orderlies who waited on tables one day and were asked to die the next. Sing no sad songs, there were no pup tent poets, just be there and be square and when you are done your own Mama won’t want you back. “Mado, Mado where you’ve been up snake hill and back again: your left, your left, right, left...

Bob Stave’s remarkable story begins on the University of Minnesota campus and the West Bank, otherwise known as Seven Corners. That’s where a druggie was murdered by an undercover narc named Captain America. It was a center of disillusionment and unrest...