Gathering clouds: Welcome to the war, boys / David Ross --
Nine-to-five war / Jan Barry --
Patrolling the Tonkin Gulf / Karl Phaler --
Sand Castles: Washing ashore / Warren Nelson --
Living off the jungle / John Muir --
Prayer wheel / Thomas Bailey --
Ia Drang / Thomas Bird --
New-life Hamlet / David Ross --
Free-fire zone / Karl Phaler --
Lang Co Village / Jonathan Polansky --
Chrome dome / Lee Childress --
Getting loaded / Samuel Janney --
Peaks and valleys: Fire-base Burt / Herb Mock --
Size-twelve boot, size-ten war / Scott Higgins and James Hebron --
Drill Sergeant / Herb Mock --
Shanghai'd / Jonathan Polansky --
Screaming eagles / James Bombard --
My men / Robert Santos --
Party / Brian Delate --
Flying black ponies / Kit Lovell --
Nurse with round eyes / Gayle Smith --
Notion of honor / Jonathan Polansky and Albert Santoli --
Black GI / Robert Rawls --
Puerto Rican marine / Luis Martinez --
Life / Lynda Van Devanter --
Barren harvest: Restraint / Gary Riggs --
Little people / Thomas Bailey --
Missing ingredients / Bruce Lawlor --
Fullback 6 / Herb Mock --
CRIP Platoon / Michael Andrews --
Underground city / Jonathan Polansky --
VC / Thomas Bailey --
Strategy of Terror / Bruce Lawlor --
Book of Poetry / Robert Santos --
Phoenix / Thomas Bailey and Bruce Lawlor --
Green-faced frogmen / Mike Beamon --
Dalat / George Lawrence --
Operation new wind: Christmas bombing / Bruce Lawlor --
Cease-fire / Dennis Morgan --
Celebration without victory / Stephen Klinkhammer --
POW / William Lawrence --
LBJ / Ralph Dennison --
Dominoes / David Ross --
Fall of Saigon / Stephen Klinkhammer --
Glossary --
Biographies.

Spontaneous tape-recorded interviews with combat veterans reveal the horror and poignancy of their war in Vietnam and bring home that war's violence, intimacy, and unresolved trauma.

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