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She’d made some of the most momentous choices in her life before she had any idea of consequences.

From now on, she would always know there was a fragility in her and no matter now strong she became, she would have to guard against it.

‘We’re both the walking dead.’
He’d seen her in a way that cut to the bone, saw what she was trying so hard to hide.

Why should she care that no one remembered the women?

Vietnam would forever hold a piece of her heart. Here, she had found her place in the world, and she was afraid that ‘home’ was no longer the place she wanted it to be.

The Stars and Stripes called it the Tet Offensive: a massive coordinated attack across the country by the North Vietnamese in the early hours of 1/31/1968, the bloodiest day of the Vietnam War so far. It blew the doors off the secret side of the war. Walter Cronkite reported — on air — ‘What the hell is going on? I thought we were winning the war.’

‘I don’t know what I’ll do now. It’s hard to go from red alert sirens and saving lives to pantyhose and heels.’

‘I should have…” What? Love mattered in this ruined world, but so did honor. What was one without the other?