The Crater: A True Vietnam Story
This is the story of a former Australian conscript, long-burdened by the horrors of combat during the Vietnam War, and how he attempts to atone for his part in the bulldozing of dead North Vietnamese soldiers into a mass grave during the war. He returns to Vietnam to dig for the bodies of those old enemies to lay the ghosts of his past to rest so that he can somehow deal with his nightmares and the Post Traumatic Stress with which he has suffered for almost five decades.
This is the story of a former Australian conscript, long-burdened by the horrors of combat during the Vietnam War, and how he attempts to atone for his part in the bulldozing of dead North Vietnamese soldiers into a mass grave during the war. He returns to Vietnam to dig for the bodies of those old enemies to lay the ghosts of his past to rest so that he can somehow deal with his nightmares and the Post Traumatic Stress with which he has suffered for almost five decades.
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