Bob Greene

Preface First, a word about how this book came about. For years I had been hearing stories that when American troops returned home from Vietnam, they were spat upon by anti-war protesters. The stories were usually very specific. A soldier, fresh from Vietnam duty, wearing his uniform, gets off...

ONE "I do dream," he said one night. We had been talking about that word- -the word "dream"—and how often people seemed to use it when referring to him. The word came up so frequently in conversations when strangers were discussing him, it was almost as if the usage was involuntary. People...