VETERANS PRESS: Portrait of a soldier
Portrait of Hayden Lake veteran Larry Scott, who served in the Vietnam War starting in 1970. The portrait is part of the "Vets: Fifty Portraits of Veterans and Their Stories" book of paintings by former courtroom artist John Thamm.
JOHN THAMM/Courtesy photo
HAYDEN LAKE — The only time Larry Scott ever won a lottery, he says, was in 1970. That's when his number was a very low 11 and he got a draft notice. After boot camp, he took infantry training. "I really enjoyed getting out and firing the weapons, map reading and all the classes they put you through," he recalls. He then took three weeks of mortar training, followed by another three weeks of infantry.
"Unfortunately, during my final days of instruction, I suffered a lower-leg stress fracture,” he said. “So, I ended up in clerical school in Fort Leonard Wood, Mo. I hated it. I didn't like sitting behind a desk poking a typewriter. I never did learn how to type."
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