Vietnam series by Burns and Novick

[SergeStorms]

19. That, and too many.....

wayward, totally lost kids. There were so many kids coming in non-stop. No place to live, no money.....just lost. It was really sad. They all came expecting the world to open up to them, but what they found were a bunch of people waiting to prey upon them. "Hipsters" getting the girls into porn, or worse. Heck, they didn't differentiate, boys were preyed upon by sexual predators as well. Drugs.....bad drugs everywhere. If you didn't know the people you were buying from, chances are you were going to get burned.

It wasn't all bad, but there were just too many kids streaming in all at once. A few more months of that and I escaped back to New York, which had it's own problems, but that's another story.