Topmiller, Robert J.

Robert J. Topmiller joined the Navy at seventeen and served as a hospitalman with the Marines at Khe Sanh, Vietnam. Later a businessman and professor of history at Eastern Kentucky University, Doc Topmiller wrote two books on Vietnam: "The Lotus Unleashed: The Buddhist Peace Movement in South Vietnam 1964 1966" (2002) and "Red Clay on My Boots: Encounters with Khe Sanh 1968 to 2005" (2007). He was working on "Binding Their Wounds" when he died. He left a wife, three children, and three grandchildren.