A Remarkable Retelling of an Improbable Revolt

A Remarkable Retelling of an Improbable Revolt

My dad went to fight in Vietnam as a member of the Marine Corps shortly after I was born in 1969. Decades later, he would tell me about the hardships of being separated from his family, so far away on another continent, in such an alien place. It was a terrifying international conflict, the legacy of which still troubles him — and our country. As a kid, he had enjoyed playing “cowboys and Indians,” but as a Marine, he found himself in the role o…