My Little War

For eight months in 1970, Captain John Martin did his duty in the US Army in South Vietnam. On a typical day, his job was to find and kill Vietnamese. On the next day, he might try to save the same Vietnamese with medicine, hammers and nails. On a typical night inside the wire, the enemy had a different face--drunks, drug addicts, spies and assassins.Yet, the "little war" that he battled for decades at home was even more dangerous, destructive and difficult to understand. His little war is the same that combat veterans fight and they often fight it alone. Even today, far too many of these veterans who've survived the big war lose the little war. This is the candid story of John's two wars and the people who helped him survive.