Along the Way: A Green Beret shares stirring stories of those he met and those who supported him in Vietnam - Tet 1968

"Along the Way" is a collection of exciting, uplifting stories about wartime service during one of the most negative and controversial periods in American history. Soldiers did not commit the U.S. military to war in Vietnam. However, they did bear the brunt of that commitment on both foreign battlefields and in their own hometowns when they returned. Not only did the soldiers fight battles against an enemy who hated them, but upon returning home they often faced countrymen who seemed to hate them as well.The great majority of the more than three million men and women who spent time in Vietnam were decent people who either felt they were fulfilling their patriotic duty or simply believed they were serving their country. Most of them were young, either still in or scarcely out of their teens when they were asked to shoulder heavy responsibility and face life-and-death situations, some of them on a daily basis. I know, I was there . . . and, as a military adviser, I was one of those soldiers. "Along the Wat" is a firsthand account of the many acts of selfless heroism and courage I witnessed during my tour of duty as a military advisor in a surprisingly picturesque Southeast Asian nation.Along the Way addresses neither the politics of the war nor the conflict itself, but depicts some of those who were there and shows the spirit-lifting manner in which they served. It is a detailed, action-filled account that will give readers a real, often frightening, idea of what it was like to be on the ground, or in the air over the Vietnamese jungle during that conflict.