When Patrick Nolan stepped onto the runway in Song Mao, he saw before him a dusty wasteland, not the tropical paradise described by his teachers back at Fort Bliss.
Always against the war, Nolan hoped that working in the civil affairs unit providing aid to villagers would offset to som.
No matter what, a year out of graduate school and 9,000 miles later, there he stood in Vietnam.
The reality fit his fear that Maybe he hadn\'t been so lucky to dodge combat duty by studying to be an interpreter.
When Patrick Nolan stepped onto the runway in Song Mao, he saw before him a dusty wasteland, not the tropical paradise described by his teachers back at Fort Bliss