This book is an attempt to describe the intensity of the mad minutes (in the bush language of grunts, describes the general discharge of all weapons along a defense perimeter at a pre-designated time to discourage a potential enemy attack) and the agonizing search for the release that those moments of blind violence provided. For those who, like myself, started the search with the light of glory in our eyes and ended it dimmed by a dark jungle and our darker deeds, mad minutes became part of a mad experience in a mad war that carried us beyond glory into a territory from which none of us...