Up Against "The Walls"
May, 1976
In 1966, Daniel Atkinson was about as close as one can get to being the typical American boy--a white, Protestant, middle-class, B-average San Diego high school graduate from a good home who enlisted in the Air Force and became a combat air-traffic controller in Vietnam. Five years later, he was back in California, an opponent of the war and a heroin addict with a two-year suspended sentence. Today, he is living at a drug-rehabilitation center in Seattle, along with his wife and four-year-old da...
