"I think about it all the time, no one has ever looked through my eyes and no one has ever worn my boots." - Russell Ashton, U.S. Army.

He had that Clint Eastwood look in his eyes that said he was kind, but didn’t take anything from anyone. His skin was weathered, as if he had spent a great deal of his life working outside. 

Russell Ashton served our country in the Vietnam War, he was in the US Army. When he returned, like many Vietnam Veterans, he went straight to work. Ashton still has many memories and thoughts about what he saw during a wartime, things that can’t be unseen.

Hear the WGNS Interview / Salute below: 

"I think about it all the time, no one has ever looked through my eyes and no one has ever worn my boots." - Russell Ashton, U.S. Army