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The Education of Gary Reed Meyer

Gary Meyer was born fighting. Abandoned by his mother, he grew up an orphan and ran off to fight in Vietnam at 18. When he returned, he battled a crack-cocaine addiction and a failed marriage as he struggled 30 years to assimilate back into civilian life and raise 6 children.

After being critically injured in a construction accident, Gary walked away from everything familiar in his life and enrolled at the University of Minnesota as a 52 year old man. In 2008, after studying sustainable development and indigenous cultures on four different continents, Gary earned a masters degree in Global Sustainability.

This is the story of Gary Meyer's final battle as he faces off with his health, his creditors, his past, and time itself. This winter, Gary will return to Thailand to enroll in a doctoral program at Burapa University, reunite with this girlfriend in Laos, and return to the jungles of Vietnam for the first time since he was a soldier there 40 years ago. We're going with him.