From Washing the Stench and Grime left behind by thousands of chickens and battling enraged rats with nothing but a high-pressure hose to protesting with the homeless and editing an antiwar GI newspaper, Bruce Patterson does his best to readapt to civilian life upon his return to American soil after the Vietnam War. In the trunk of his car are all his worldly possessions, including an army-issue duffle bag stuffed with clothes, a ghetto blaster, a...