This is the second in a series of five blogs reposts . Part 1 recounted how dozens of my old letters were transcribed and, over a year, transformed into the raw form of a book.
The photo on the left is of yo-yo throwing machine gunner Tom Morrissey who was killed on LZ Loon on June 5, 1968.

By the summer of 2005, I had been writing what was to become Loon for nearly three years. It had been transformed from a compendium of 100 letters home into an almost-book with half as many letters and a corr