An Idahoan Looks Back At Vietnam

Julie Titone with a copy of Boocoo Dinky Dow, her late ex-husband’s war memoir. (Inlander photo: Young Kwak)

Julie Titone, former regional editor of the SR’s Coeur d’Alene office and now communications director of WSU, has self-published a book about her ex-husband’s experiences in Vietnam. You may have known Grady Myers, a talented artist who once worked for the Panhandle National Forest. Here’s a snippet from an Inlander article about Julie & Grady: “It offers readers a unique, intimate and often humorous glimpse into the absurdity and savagery of Vietnam narrated by a tall, strapping Idahoan who was Mr. Magoo-nearsighted without his glasses and who the Army, logically, decided to make into a machine-gunner. That would be Grady Myers, gravely wounded in Vietnam and Titone’s former husband who died at age 61 in July 2011. Myers, after the war, became an artist for newspapers in Boise and Spokane and later worked as a graphic information specialist for the Idaho Panhandle National Forests, where he created the information panels along the Route of the Hiawatha trail.” Full Inlander article here.

Question: Were you or any of your family involved in the Vietnam War?