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Reviewed on March 1, 2006
Joining the ROTC when a junior at Harvard seemed to Kidder a way to avoid the uncertainties of the draft during the Vietnam era. But after graduation, he found himself in Vietnam, commanding a detachment of undisciplined enlisted men who had grown lax under their former leader. The author, only 23 at the time, had serious doubts about the war and cared little about whether his men kept their hair short or ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More