2020 Best Book Awards Finalist - AmericanBookFest.com. Young and na ve, happily in love with the girl of his dreams, Todd is drafted into the U.S. Army just days before his twentieth birthday, December of 1967. Though being in the military had been the last thing on his mind, he was determined to make the best of the situation. Within weeks of his arrival in Vietnam, the reality of the horrors of war hit him like a...