Toms River Veteran Writes Candid Memoir “Years Later About Vietnam”

Toms River Veteran Writes Candid Memoir “Years Later About Vietnam”

TOMS RIVER – Ron Fazio didn’t want to go to war. But he also didn’t want to flee to Canada or risk arrest for defying the draft.   “I was a drafted teacher,” he said. “That proved I didn’t like the war. But I didn’t want to not serve. I didn’t want to go to Canada, and I didn’t want to go to jail. So, I took my 10, 15, 20 percent chance of either being killed or wounded, and I said, ‘I’m going in. I can’t take it anymore.’”   For decades, Fazio,…