‘One Hell of a Story’
On April 1, 1968, Marine veteran Ken Rodgers, upon exiting a helicopter that landed in the city of Dong Ha, Vietnam, turned and looked back in the direction that he came from, toward Khe Sanh Combat Base. As he remembered the battle that transpired there over the past 11 weeks, he thought to himself: “That’s one hell of a story.” Having suffered a wound to the head from a mortar ...