Kent Bischoff and Tom Raisor were neighbors in 1968, Nelson County farm boys who, like most young men, hoped to avoid going to war.
It was a troubled time. Vietnam was heating up as a result of the Communists’ Tet Offensive, and back home there was revolution in the air. Anti-war protests became more militant. Cities burned after Martin Luther King Jr. was murdered. But except for the nightly news coverage, Bardstown was mostly insulated from the turmoil.