Vietnam Redux

An agency of the Vietnamese government is planning to ethnically cleanse the Central Highlands of South Vietnam of the indigenous Montagnards ( mountain people ). Death camps are being built and villagers rounded up. Former Green Berets who fought along side the Montagnards during the Vietnam War return to help their former allies. Flash backs to the Vietnam War set the stage for the dangers they are willing to face and the sacrifices they may be called on to make.

During the Vietnam War Green Berets fought side by side with the Montagnards ( mountain people ) of the Central Highlands of South Vietnam. Special Forces soldiers came to have respect, affection and admiration for these loyal allies. Today, the Montagnards suffer repression, relocation and limited opportunities. Two retired Green Berets return to Vietnam to inquire about rumors of new harsh repression of the Mountagnard tribes. What they discover is a plan by an agency of the Vietnamese government to ethnically cleanse the Central Highlands of its indigenous population. They travel to a village just over the border in Cambodia where they meet an American who has been living with the Montagnards since the end of the war. He has organized a small, well equipped, army of Montagnards with which he plans to destroy the death camps, free the villagers and expose the Vietnamese plans to the world. The men make a fateful decision to join the American in order to observe the death camp, witness its destruction and help expose the genocide. Flash backs to the Vietnam War clarify who these Green Berets are and why they are willingly to risk danger and death to help their former allies.

The author is a graduate of the airborne school at Ft. Benning and the Unconventional Warfare School at Ft. Bragg. He served with the 7th Special Forces Group at Ft. Bragg and the 5th Group in Vietnam. His other works include a book of poems about the Vietnam War experience entitled“ No Slack Authorized “.