Set in the tumultuous year of 1968, this factual account reflects the first-hand experiences of a naive young man who was thrust from a sheltered life provided by middle-class parents to the atrocities of war-torn Vietnam. Sent overseas at the youthful age of twenty and only sixteen days after marrying his sweetheart, the author captures his fear, anxiety, and apprehensions of being in a hostile environment along with the additional burden of being separated from his bride during their first year of marriage. Indeed, the bulk of the information for the memoir was extracted from over 300...

Set in the tumultuous year of 1968, this factual account reflects the first-hand experiences of a naive young man who was thrust from a sheltered life provided by middle-class parents to the atrocities of war-torn Vietnam. Sent overseas at the youthful age of twenty and only sixteen days after marrying his sweetheart, the author captures his fear, anxiety, and apprehensions of being in a hostile environment along with the additional burden of being separated from his bride during their first year of marriage. Indeed, the bulk of the information for the memoir was extracted from over 300...