Lost in History

F. E. Taylor waited nearly half a century to write about the moment that changed his life-the day he was wounded in combat in South Vietnam and received the Purple Heart. For decades he rarely spoke about it. When asked why he finally decided to write, he often pointed to an unexpected moment: his grandson traveling to Hanoi to play soccer. Watching the boy compete against Vietnamese players, Taylor reflected that his grandson was "playing against the grandchildren of men I once faced in co...