Anthony Gerald Miller grew up in a succession of small New England towns and was
admitted to Harvard College in the class of 1966. He dropped out of college in 1965 and enlisted
for the Army Security Agency two days ahead of the draft. He studied Vietnamese in Monterey,
CA, and served as a translator in Vietnam, part of a Top-Secret effort to gather intelligence on
Viet Cong and North Vietnamese troop movements. Letters to and from family were his
emotional lifeline, helping him transcend the grimness of wartime military service. Miller has
transcribed those letters and provided notes and explanations, filling in the narrative and
providing context.
After his Army service, Miller re-entered college, studying music at Harvard and
librarianship at Columbia. He retired after a 40-year career in libraries, 35 or those years at the
Central public library in downtown Atlanta. Tony enjoys choral singing, playing the piano and
organ, and writing. He has previously published Dearest Doris: a Chaplain’s Letters Home, a
compilation of his father’s letters as an Army chaplain during World War II; and Love’s Trespass:
a Musical Romance of Wrong and Redemption, set at a fictional college in Vermont. He lives
near Athens, Georgia, with his wife, Anne Marie, and a cat who adopted them.