'I was standing on a street corner and a man walked up to me and asked if I was an American soldier. I said, "Yes, I am." Hesaid, "Hello, I'm the enemy: I was the Viet Cong. " ' That remarkable encounter took place on the streets of Hanoi during a tour of Vietnam by ten US combat veterans. More Vietnam veterans have committed suicide since the war than died during it. For 20 years, thousands have lived with the trauma of that war. The tour was a radical attempt to deal with the trauma, by taking veterans back to the country where it all began. This is the story of that journey.