Heroes to the End: An Army Correspondent’s Last Days in Vietnam by Jim Smith (En
Jim Smith might be one of the few people that tried extending his tour in Vietnam and was actually forced to leave. Drawing on dozens of his stories that were published and dozens that were not, he looks back at the war through the eyes of a 23-year-old who was technically a specialist fourth class in the Army but who acted like a civilian, sporting long hair and wearing safari suits with no rank insignia.