1. By: Walter Dean Myers

2.  Cold War era military conflict  Took place in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia

3.  Fought between North Vietnam and its communist allies and the U.S.

4.  The U.S was supported by South Nam and other non-communists

5.  Widely protested by American citizens

6.  Richie Perry: Just graduated high school and lives with his mother and little brother Kenny.

8.  Richie Perry graduated from High School.

9.  What does he do? Stay in Harlem and fight in the streets?

10.  NO!  He joined the army and is shipped of to Nam

13.  He realizes that all he wants is to go home back to his mother and little brother

15.  He meets Peewee, Lobel, Johnson, Brunner and Jenkins. Lobel thinks the war is just a movie.

17.  Jenkins is killed

19.  By a landmine

21.  They visit a Vietnamese village and realize how desperate the villagers are.

23.  They get ambushed and Lieutenant Carrol is killed. Richie placed a claymore.

25.  They saw a Cong turn the claymore around but it did not kill any Americans. So what way was it facing to begin with?

27.  Uh Oh!

29.  Richie gets transferred to a new platoon.

31.  They begin to hear rumors that the war is coming to an end.

33.  Are they true?

35.  Are they going home?

37.  After a few more battles they are on there way home.

39.  On the plane Richie reflects on his experience

41.  He remembers…

43.  He remembers Jenkins, Lieutenant Carrol and others that died while fighting for there country in Nam

45.  But he is okay

47.  He is going home alive

48.  Going through hard times can make a person stronger

50.  Lobel still thinks that the whole war was just a movie

51.  Richie is just glad to be going home to his family, especially Kenny

53.  Nolan Hartwell  Period 7