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When the Americans finally pulled out of Vietnam and the last helicopter lifted off the roof of the U.S. Embassy in Saigon, those who had fought alongside or cooperated with the American troops were now left in the hands of the North Vietnamese Army (NVA) and the Viet Cong. After a bloody, divisive war, few Americans were concerned about the South Vietnamese men and women who had been on the U.S. side against the Communists. Metzner, who served as a pacification advisor, could not or would not forget his friends among the vanquished. While he doggedly tried to find out what happened to them, his work was in vain--until 1994. Then he found one and would later locate two others who would make it out of Vietnam to the U.S., and it is their stories that he decided to tell. His coauthors, the three men who had worked with and befriended him during his time in Vietnam, tell their stories of "reeducation" in postwar Vietnam. Marlene Chamberlain
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About the Author
Edward P. Metzner is a retired U.S. Army colonel who served seven years in Vietnam as an advisor to South Vietnamese military commanders from district and province levels to the Vietnamese Joint General Staff. He has told the story of his own experiences in More Than A Soldier's War: Pacification in Vietnam, also published by Texas A&M University Press.Huynh Van Chinh, Tran Van Phuc, and Le Nguyen Binh were all colonels in the Army of Vietnam. All three now live in the United States.
