The Vietnam Story

The Plot begins with the beginning of a war between South Vietnamese, United States, and North Vietnamese. The unnamed narrator tells about the war and his struggles in prison in Vietnam. He also tells about his Vietnamese girlfriend named Maria and how much they have fallen in love. His Vietnamese girlfriend tells him she is on his side of the war and that she is going to go back with him to the United States. What he doesn't know is that she is lying to him, and she is really just trying to figure out where all his troops are based so that she could tell her brother and have them captured. He also tells about how bad it is there with the drug problems and all the women and children who have been strapped with bombs and sacrificing themselves to kill the Americans. The heroin is also making the troops get flashbacks of the bombing of their fellow troops, which most of them lost a lot of friends. The narrator also speaks about how they don't think they should be over their helping fight this war. At the end of the story Maria turns on the narrator and he becomes a prisoner of the Vietnamese, and is tortured and punished where he is oblivious to everything because of the drugs and the flashbacks of the suiciding bombing, his girlfriend, and he doesn't understand why he is alive. He wants to just be killed.