We Had to Get Out of That Place

<p> Steven Grzesik's counter-culture experience in Greenwich Village ended with a bad acid trip followed by a draft notice. The Vietnam War then at its height seemed doomed to failure by cynical politicians and a skeptical public a prediction he weighed against his sense of duty to himself and to his country.</p><p> Through a variety of combat duties--with the infantry the 36th Engineer Battalion F Co. 75th Rangers and the 174th Assault Helicopter Co.--and several close calls with death Grzesik's detailed memoir recounts his two tours in-country where he hoped merely to survive with a semblance of heroism yet ultimately redefined himself.</p>