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It s the year 1969. I was serving in the U.S. Army with my brothers of First Platoon Company A 3 1 11th Bde Americal (23rd Infantry) Division. We were average American sons, fathers, husbands, or brothers who d enlisted or been drafted from all over the United States and who d all come from different backgrounds. We came together and formed a brotherhood that will last through time. I share my experiences about weeks of boredom and minutes to hours of terror and surviving the heat, carrying a 60-pound rucksack, monsoons, a forest fire, a typhoon, building a firebase, fear, death and fighting the enemy while mentally, physically, and morally exhausted.