There were many casualties of the U.S. War in Vietnam. Like a moon shadow on a deep snow piercing a clear, winter night, the U.S. War in Vietnam cast a shroud over my teaching career and my life. There were more educators fired during the late 1960s and early 1970s than during the depths of the cold war. I was one of them. The U.S. War in Vietnam loomed over my life. A high school classmate was killed there. As a young teacher, my opposition to the war ranged from a peace poster in my eighth grade science classroom to a huge, black Z taped to the trunk of my car. I fought the military draft while finding my own purpose in life. In this engaging memoir, the reader learns how it all happened through the eyes of one young teacher who learned to thrive while in the Moon Shadow of War.