A young infantryman, a "grunt," spends weeks on patrol among the rice paddies of Vietnam and comes to regard it as "normal."An artillery lieutenant leads a patrol into the jungle so that he can call in artillery strikes to protect his unit.An airman, on the day he returns from Vietnam, is accosted in a commercial airport by a civilian who calls him a "baby killer" and spits on him.A Marine, 18 years old, quotes the 23rd Psalm as he walks through the...
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