Andrea Swift sat stiffly in an uncomfortable plastic chair as the sterile fluorescent lights of Vanderbilt University Medical Center created harsh shadows throughout…
January the 2nd, 1963. The Meong Delta, 50 mi south of Saigon. The morning mist clung to the rice patties like a ghost,…
I used to think I understood what it meant to hide. We’d been trained in camouflage, taught to dig in, learn to hold…
At 3:47 p.m. on September 27th, 1969, Private David John Fiser crouched in waistdeep mud at the base of the Nui Mao Masif…
I used to think American special forces were the quietest operators in Vietnam. We had May CV SOG running deep recon into Laos…
Five men walked into the jungle. For six days, they didn’t speak a single word, not one syllable, not even a whisper. They…
January 30th, 1944. The skies over Bugenville in the Solomon Islands were alive with war. 18 American TBF Avenger torpedo bombers droned toward…
The medical officer at Camp Concordia, Kansas, stands in the examination room holding an X-ray film up to the light. He does not…
Smoke drifted over broken roofs as morning light cut through the torn wire. A line of exhausted women stood near the gate, silent,…
She won’t stop crying. Sarah’s mother told the production assistant, “I’m sorry. Maybe we should leave.” They were in the front row at…