Facing the Vietnam-era draft, Roger Durham secured a deferment when he enrolled in college. Devoting more time to anti-war protests than to studies, he flunked out and was drafted anyway. Deployed to Vietnam with the U.S. Army's 18th Engineer Brigade Headquarters, he was assigned to a helicopter base far from the action. Or so he thought-the action came to him as the base drew mortar, rocket and sappwer attacks. Durham's clear-eyed memoir relates an often untold experience of the Vietnam War-that of the counterculture soldier whose opposition to war did not end when he was inducted. He found a thriving drug culture and a brotherhood of like-minded warriors, who resisted both the enemy and what they saw as an immoral war, against American national interests.
Facing the Vietnam-era draft, Roger Durham secured a deferment when he enrolled in college. Devoting more time to anti-war protests than to studies, he flunked out and was drafted anyway. Deployed to Vietnam with the U.S. Army's 18th Engineer Brigade Headquarters, he was assigned to a helicopter base far from the action. Or so he thought-the action came to him as the base drew mortar, rocket and sappwer attacks. Durham's clear-eyed memoir relates an often untold experience of the Vietnam War-that of the counterculture soldier whose opposition to war did not end when he was inducted. He found a thriving drug culture and a brotherhood of like-minded warriors, who resisted both the enemy and what they saw as an immoral war, against American national interests.
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