As a wounded Marine convalescing at Quantico Naval Hospital in 1968, John Musgrave felt moved to write his first poem. Having eagerly joined the Marine Corps fresh out of his Kansas high school in ...

John Musgrave has a story to tell. In 1966, he started the paperwork to enlist in the Marine Corps when he was just 17 years old. His parents met his intent to join up with the same reluctance of ...

A Viet Cong soldier’s bullet ripped a hole through U.S. Marine Corps infantryman John Musgrave’s chest so large no one thought he would survive. Not even Musgrave. His rival at the machine gun had ...

I wonder how I looked to you I wonder, were you as terrified as I was? I wonder, did you hate me as much as I hated you? I wonder how long you’d been fighting your war I wonder if you had any children ...

After being shot in the chest by in the Vietnam War, John Musgrave recalled making peace with God. Musgrave was medically retired from the Marine Corps in 1969. For infantrymen like John Musgrave, the ...

John Musgrave, of Baldwin City and seen here at KU’s Vietnam War memorial, is a Vietnam veteran who is featured in documentary filmmaker Ken Burns’ series about the war. John Musgrave, a local Vietnam ...