University of Virginia Library

Bringing The War On Home

Heroin has now become the
newest affliction of affluent
America - of mothers in Westport,
Connecticut, who only wanted to
die when they traced track-marks
on their daughters' elegant arms; or
of fathers in Cicero, Illinois
speechless in outrage when their
conscripted sons came back from
the war bringing home a
bloodstained needle as their only
lasting souvenir.