The Boys Next Door A Marine Returns to Vietnam By R.L. Tecklenburg

A Marine in Vietnam, Robert Tecklenburg returned thirty-five years later to the two villages (Thua Luu and Nouc Ngot in rural Phu Loc District) where he served as a member of a Combined Action Team. Their mission was to defend the villages' inhabitants and conduct pacification and civic action projects while living among them.

It is a story of war, memories, and recovery - about the people he left behind,  many of them just children - and the world he found on his return. He looks at how the long war ultimately impacted the country of Vietnam and its people.