A Complicated Legacy: The Life of David Donald Spivey David Spivey - Wilmington High School Yearbook 1965 I wrote this blog post as a part of an assignment for my Historical Professions course at Liberty University. The assignment tasked students to explore some aspect of their family history, ideally the goal being to use genealogical sources and to share some either interesting or uplifting message. For my post, I have chosen to write about my maternal grandfather, David Donald Spivey, or Papa as I called him growing up. For this post, I have utilized records from ancestry.com , obituaries, family stories, and personal memories of a man whose legacy is not only significant to those of us in his family, but is also a representation of the struggles and pain that an entire generation of veterans experienced after their service in Vietnam. David Donald Spivey was born on September 26, 1947, in Joliet, Illinois, to Donald and Evelyn Spivey. He was the first of two sons that Donald ...