Local Veteran’s Book About His Time in Vietnam Now Available for Purchase at Hopkins County Genealogical Society Library

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Avery Smith, member of a sixth generation first family in Hopkins County, has written a book about his time in Vietnam.

Smith’s book, Blind Tiger, My Time in Vietnam, is now available to purchase at the Hopkins County Genealogical Society Library.

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Avery served in Vietnam as a Special Forces Advisor to the South Vietnamese Army, and finally at the U.S.Army  Surveillance School at Ft Hauchuca, Arizona before leaving the service July 1970. A Son of the Republic of Texas , Avery is a Sixth-Generation Texan from Sulphur Springs.

Smith is donating all proceeds to the Hopkins County Genealogical Society Library.

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