remfs

"remfs" is a wildly unconventional, seriously comic story about a curious, unkknown part of the Vietnam. It’s a funny, surprising book about enchanted soldiers whose mission in Vietnam was unique, fascinating and hazardous — but so absurdly nice that the Army has been too shy to tell you about it. Armed with guns and an indispensable sense of humor, bewildered young Americans trudge the lonely back roads of an unpopular war, risking their lives to bring peanuts to Montagnards, and "miracle rice" to skeptical Vietnamese farmers... who sell the seed to Ho Chi Minh! They’re lost in a confusing, comical, half-mystical war zone where land mines and Jane Fonda are equally terrifying, water buffalo talk, fish dance in parking lots, and God interferes in barroom bets but rarely answers prayers. "remfs" is a perfect book for Baby Boomers — and their parents — and their kids. It’s a book for women as well as men. It’s a book that colors the war in Vietnam with admiration, as well as disappointment. It's crammed full of small stories, quiet moments, simple pleasures, anguish that reaches the heart, and infectious laughter. Peanuts, fish farms, hog hormones and broken hearts. "remfs" is everything you never expected in a war story.