The nation that will insist upon drawing a broad line of distinction between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking by cowards.
-- Sir William Francis Butler
This is the story of an armored cavalry task force in Vietnam. William Haponski takes the reader inside the unit to experience first-hand the determination and courage of young men who performed well beyond their years, day and night after exhausting day and night, in great danger, determined to give their all. Haponski commanded the 1st Squadron, 4th Cavalry, 1st Infantry Division in the first half of 1969.