How does a young man face the reality that he is being shipped overseas to war? With danger present both on and outside his army base, how is it possible for him to fall in love with a local woman? When the army steps in and shatters their dream to marry, how can he accept it? And what would make him return to those same war grounds 30 years later looking for a love he was sure he had lost forever? What good could possibly result from such an effort?Eddie Phillips' riveting, true-life account answers these questions and in the process reveals a startling humanity borne out of the US conflict in Vietnam. Phillips proves that one can go back and find love and happiness where before there had been only pain.