Come Walk A Distant Mile: Cu Chi 66 to 67 by Robert White

Born almost nine months to the day after my father returned from the war in Europe, I knew by the time I was 8 years old that I would not only be a soldier, but that I too would have a war to fight. How...you tell me! Briefly tracing the arc of my youth through the fall of Dien Ben Phu, my infatuation with the lovely Madame Nhu, the all out threat of nuclear war with Russia over the Cuban missile situation and the assassination of JFK, I find myself, at 19, drafted into the U. S. Army. Joining the 25th Infantry Division in Hawaii straight out boot camp seems to me an ideal situation...until I report for duty. Join me for a stroll through my recollections; the hilarious, the bitter, the brotherly and the insanity of it all. Come, walk a distant mile; here, use my jungle boots!.