To honor fallen comrades, a journalist and a soldier return to Vietnam battlefields more than 30 years later.

Includes index.

Back to our battlefields -- Conversations with the enemy -- You killed my battalion! -- Traveling in time -- The backbone of the army -- Back to the Ia Drang! -- A night alone on the battlefield -- Back to the hell that was Albany -- Walking the ground at Dien Bien Phu -- The never-ending story -- Lessons on leadership -- On war.