It was the war. It was always the war. It was beginning when he was in junior high school. It was raging during all four years of high school. It dominated most of his college years. Who he was, and who he became, and so much of what he thought and felt could be traced to that damn war. Ron Edwards came of age during the Vietnam War. Three decades later he found himself alone, on the beach, struggling to make a life-changing decision. It is a decision that cannot be made without coming to terms with his past. Guitars and Telescopes is a political love story. It captures the events and the soundtrack that shaped the life of the main character, and his generation.