Lt. Col. John C. Hedley (Ret.)

When the Class of 1968 entered West Point in 1964, the country of Vietnam was basically an unknown. During their four years at the academy, some 550,000 young Americans were deployed to that formerly unknown land, while back home the country became embroiled in racial strife and a growing counterculture movement that swept across the continent. Imbued with the ideals of the academy's motto, "Duty, Honor, Country," and their class motto, "No task...