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O’Brien passes on the legendary (and almost certainly exaggerated) tale of Rat Kiley’s first assignment, near a river called this. The area being so isolated, the story goes, one of the soldiers flies his hometown girlfriend in by helicopter. At first, she cooks, cleans, and tends to the soldiers’ wounds but gradually, she assimilates into Vietnamese guerilla culture and disappears into the jungle
What is Sweetheart of Song Tra Bong