After reading Some Never Forget, consider these questions:
In the early 1950s, Walter Greene claimed to have seen and overheard CIA operatives planning the assassination of a Central American dictator. Because no one else can substantiate his “wild claim” a government operative uses this as an example to discredit his assertions of prisoner abandonment in Vietnam. The feds also label Greene as delusional and schizophrenic. Do you believe, as the author insinuates, that the government resorts to character assassination as part of its plan to discredit those seeking the truth about missing military personnel?
Alex Bannon, the former college girlfriend of PFC Thomas Greene (missing in Vietnam) sets off on a quest to meet Walter Greene. She wants to tell him how much his son meant to her. Seeking to mend her broken heart, she ultimately finds herself caught up in the middle of a deadly conspiracy to hide the truth. Do you believe this scenario is pure fiction? Or can you imagine that something like this might have really happened to innocent citizens in the past?
Nine years after he went missing in Vietnam, Walter Greene manages to keep the painful memories of his son alive, while refusing to accept the unproven claim that he was killed in action. How does Fire Wolf, the delinquent teenager who arrives one day to help with odd jobs on Greene’s property, provide enlightenment? Is he a real person? Or an imaginary one? Could he be the spirit of Greene’s dead father who has come back to heal his pain? If so, is Fire Wolf a Kooshdakhaa, a dangerous and mythical Tlingit shape-shifting creature?
At the time the story takes place, in 1980, do you believe it would have been possible for civilians (in this case local militia members) to locate and rescue an American POW in Vietnam? Walter Greene’s friend, a mysterious Vietnam veteran who is away fighting alongside the Contra rebels in Nicaragua, has a plan for such action. Given the circumstances in “Some Never Forget” would you have volunteered to join the team to rescue Walter’s imprisoned son?
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