| Photographs | | iii | |
| Acknowledgments | | v | |
| About the Cover | | v | |
| Foreword | | vii | |
| Chapter 1 Richard Boes: My Blue Block of Wood | | 9 | |
| Chapter 2 Poetry | | 23 | |
| Alan Farrell: Nothing So Bad It's Not Poetry |
| | 23 | |
| | 26 | |
| | 28 | |
| Martin H. Ray: Saigon, 1972 |
| | 29 | |
| Dayl Wise: The Cross of St. Andrew |
| | 30 | |
| Chapter 3 David W. Powell: An Office in Hell | | 33 | |
| Chapter 4 Poetry | | 45 | |
| Alan Farrell: Expended Casings |
| | 45 | |
| Preston Hood: Alive or Dead |
| | 46 | |
| Dayl Wise: Walking My Dog While at War |
| | 47 | |
| Tony Swindell: Suicide in the Jungle |
| | 48 | |
| Richard Levine: Memorial Day |
| | 49 | |
| Richard Levine: Home from War |
| | 50 | |
| | 51 | |
| Chapter 5 Don Bodey: Present Day | | 53 | |
| Chapter 6 Poetry | | 67 | |
| Richard Levine: America's Black Monument |
| | 67 | |
| | 69 | |
| Richard Levine: Survivor Guilt |
| | 70 | |
| | 71 | |
| | 72 | |
| Dayl Wise: Vietnam Revisited |
| | 74 | |
| Chapter 7 Tom Skiens: Witness to Rape | | 75 | |
| Chapter 8 Poetry | | 81 | |
| Preston Hood: Boats near Hue, Viet Nam, 1997 |
| | 81 | |
| Richard Levine: Birnam Wood |
| | 82 | |
| Dayl Wise: The Woods Move |
| | 83 | |
| Jim Murphy: The Great Imprinting Event at Quang Tri |
| | 85 | |
| Tony Swindell: Call It Sleep |
| | 88 | |
| Alan Farrell: The Man Who Outlived His Lieutenant |
| | 90 | |
| Richard Levine: Mud-Walking |
| | 94 | |
| Chapter 9 Marc Levy: How Stevie Nearly Lost the War | | 95 | |
| Chapter 10 Shirley Jolls and Walter Aponte: Kangaroo Court Martial | | 111 | |
| Chapter 11 Poetry | | 123 | |
| Dayl Wise: Found Photograph |
| | 123 | |
| Alan Farrell: Fighting Position |
| | 125 | |
| | 127 | |
| Chapter 12 Rich Raitano: Absent of Grace and Mercy | | 135 | |
| Chapter 13 Poetry | | 149 | |
| Preston Hood: At the Wall |
| | 149 | |
| Alan Farrell: On Catching Sight of an M-188 Tracked Recovery Vehicle |
| | 151 | |
| Tom Skiens: Rally Round the Flag, Boys |
| | 153 | |
| Chapter 14 Marc Levy: Torque in Angkor Wat | | 159 | |
| Chapter 15 Pieter van Aggelen: A South African in Viet Nam | | 167 | |
| Chapter 16 Martin H. Ray: The Face of the Enemy | | 177 | |
| Chapter 17 David Bianchini: Letter to Shane | | 183 | |
| Chapter 18 Tom Skiens: Boat People | | 189 | |
| Chapter 19 Marc Levy: Off the Road | | 193 | |
| Chapter 20 Marc Levy: Whatever You Did in War Will Always be With You | | 203 | |
| About The Contributors | | 207 | |
| Glossary | | 211 | |
| Index | | 221 | |
