By Dick Lindsay for The Berkshire Eagle, 27 August 2015
Twelve Berkshire County Vietnam War veterans learned this week they have plenty in common with William Shakespeare.
The Bard’s works often feature war veterans and the struggles they endured returning from the battlefields.
On Wednesday evening, several of them took turns reading a militaristic scene from “Othello.” Later, they alternated lines from a monologue by Lady Percy in “Henry IV,” urging her husband to open up about the trauma he suffered fighting other human beings.
By the end of the two-hour session, the veterans — 11 men and one woman — understood their connection to the playwright, even if the 16th century English was hard to grasp.
“You’re making a point when your talking,” said Navy veteran George Moran of Pittsfield. “The sound of the language is inference — it gets the meaning across.”
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