"We, who have seen war, will never stop seeing it. In the silence of the night, we will always hear the screams. So this is our story, for we were soldiers once, and young....." "We Were Soldiers Once... and Young:" Lt. Gen. Harold G. Moore (Ret.) and Joseph L. Galloway (Random House -1992)
I will call him Jim--though that isn't his real name. He is elderly now, a reserved gentleman who doesn't speak much anymore about something that happened over half a century ago when he was a youth born and bred on Canada's prairies and thrust as a young man into a strange and brutal world four thousand miles from his home, a worrisome world, a world at war.