Red Rivers in a Yellow Field: Memoirs of the Vietnam Era

The year 2018 marks the 50th anniversary of the Tet Offensive, one of the major events of the Vietnam War. The decade also marks the 50th class reunion for high school and college classes of the 1960s. While for most classmates a school reunion prompts recollections of halcyon days of dating, sports, fraternities, and folk songs, to many young men of the era—some of whom received diplomas in one hand and draft notices in the other—the ’60s meant Vietnam.

Within these pages, thirty-four veter...