UNIT: Civilian Life

SITUATION: Fueling the Stress

LOCATION: life in Texas

TIME: The Mid 1960s

Hot, swampy, relentless heat. That is how hot it was on my first day in-country. Hot, swampy, relentless. Every day, Vietnam was hot-swampy-relentless, no other way to describe it. The country was beautiful but the weather was impossible. That’s...