Author Michael Herr passed away: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/25/ar...ies-at-76.html
If you haven't read Dispatches, read it. You may have heard his writings in Full Metal Jacket or Apocolypse Now, but Dispatches was one of the most moving books I have ever read. I grabbed my falling-apart copy that I picked up in the 70s and read from it today. Stunning perception and honesty.
