To Michael Jennings, Vietnam was just some faraway place where people were killing each other for reasons that weren't very clear. Until he met the rest of the guys in Echo Company.
Snoopy knew the only way to live through the nightmare was to laugh at it.
Sgt. Hanson just wanted to get his guys out alive.
Finnegan was mad that when the Red Sox finally won the pennant, he had to be in Vietnam.