Contents

Cover

Title Page

Map

Dedication

Introduction

Chapter 1:One Night in a New York City Bar—The Colonel’s Challenge

Chapter 2:Gathering the Names

Chapter 3:Setting Sail

Chapter 4:Voyage to Vietnam

Chapter 5:Anchored off Qui Nhon

Chapter 6:Looking for Chuckles’s Brother

Chapter 7:The Texan Couldn’t Care Less About Orders

Chapter 8:The Good Samaritan in An Khe Looked Familiar

Chapter 9:LZ Tombstone

Chapter 10: “Who’s This Guy?!”

Chapter 11: “Wait a Minute—You Don’t Have to Be Here, and You’re Here?!”

Chapter 12: Firefight at the Ambush Post

Chapter 13: Screams on the Night Road

Chapter 14: An Air Force Pilot Does Me a Favor

Chapter 15: Stuck in Saigon

Chapter 16: American Money Is Good for Bribes

Chapter 17: The Caravelle Rooftop Bar

Chapter 18: Finding a Seafaring Friend

Chapter 19: Happy New Year, Baby

Chapter 20: Beaucoup VC

Chapter 21: Broken Truce

Chapter 22: The American Embassy Under Siege

Chapter 23: Battle at the President’s Palace

Chapter 24: Am I Dead and in Purgatory?

Chapter 25: Befriending a South Vietnamese Cop

Chapter 26: A Giant Floating Freezer Full of Food in the Midst of Famine

Chapter 27: Coast Guard Brass: A Big Job on a Big Ship

Chapter 28: Australian Marines Lock the Caravelle Up Tight

Chapter 29: Finding Bobby

Chapter 30: Explosion at Long Binh

Chapter 31: Helping a Descendant of the Mayans

Chapter 32: C.D., Phone Home

Chapter 33: Please Do Feed the Animals

Chapter 34: “We Cannot Win”

Chapter 35: “We’re Outta Here!”

Chapter 36: I Kiss the Ground

Afterword: Reflections on the Journey

Where Are They Now?

Addendum: The Neighborhood—Inwood, Manhattan, New York City

Bonus Chapter: BBQ and a Beer-Can Shoot with a Powerful Stranger

Acknowledgments

Bibliography

Photo Section

About the Authors

Copyright

About the Publisher