Living Nightmare

  I watched a snail crawl along the edge of a straight razor. that's my dream; that's my nightmare. Crawling, slithering, along the edge of a straight razor... and surviving.
                                                                                Col. Walter E. Kurtz  (Apocalypse Now 1979)

  Was the snail Kurtz dreamt of our American men who had been sent to a foreign land, a "Green Hell", where they pressed there luck, trusting in the judgment of men who knew little to nothing of the land or the people that they were up against. Crawling along that proverbial straight razor and praying to survive through to next day in a strange nightmare of a land. Was the snail really the Vietcong and NVA who were one with their land, in the trees and under the ground, crawling and slithering on their bellies, living on the edge of the razor to chase out foreign invaders to their land. In the end they survived.
  Vietnam was said to have ended at the end of April of 1975. Just how many men still have nightmares about that place? Just how many men and women have and will be coming home to relive there own personal horrors from this present war?

The horror... the horror.