March 29, 1973, found me aboard a C-141 transport plane, along with fi fty other . servicemen, returning to the United States after duty in Vietnam. The fl ight was the last in the withdrawal of . military forces under the terms of the peace agreement that the United States and North Vietnam had reached in Paris two months earlier (not to be confused with the much more hazardous and chaotic exodus of the few remaining Americans when the agreement broke down and Communist forces overran South Vietnam in April 1975)
