Graham Greene and I Were Wrong:
Vietnam and Tiger Papa Three Revisited
Remember Ho Chi Minh was a poet:
please, do not let it all come down to nothing.
--W. D. Ehrhart, "Letter"
I think that Vietnam was what we had instead of happy childhoods.
--Michael Herr, Dispatches
[This essay now appears as the epilogue to my book Tiger Papa Three: Memoir of a Combined Action Marine in Vietnam. I am no longer able to include it here. --EFP]
Below, please find some photos of the trip my former sergeant, Bill Cooke, and I took back to Vietnam in 2002. We set out in search of the village of Cam Hieu--the village in which our combined-action compound, Papa Three, was located.
