Phil Nelson was an eighteen-year-old easy-going surfer kid who’d just graduated from Santa Barbara High School.
Then he was drafted to Vietnam, given a gun, and ordered to kill people.
Before Phil finished his tour of duty, a fellow soldier walking in front of him stepped on a mine. The first soldier was killed…
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