On my discharge, I had the challenge of putting my life back together but Vietnam stuck in the inner recesses of my mind.

Indochina gets into your blood and once you have a taste you'll find it's impossible to stay away.

On my discharge, I had the challenge of putting my life back together but Vietnam stuck in the inner recesses of my mind.

If, at the end of my days, the sum of what I've taken exceeds the sum of what I've given, then I have lived in vain.

I'm divorced and have a son and a grandson and it is a problem being away most of the time. Living as I do, if I had a wife and children I think it would be really hard to do.

Ho Chi Minh City is crowded, noisy, untidy and chaotic. I miss the orderly life of suburban America and the comfort of my apartment and my truck when I'm here, but when I get back in the USA I miss the craziness of Ho Chi Minh City or Bangkok.

The Vietnam War was in full swing, the Air Force wanted me and I wanted out of Flint, so three years in the USA and that fourth one spent here in Vietnam really flipped my life around.