Pain

Richie the main character  didn't know what to do with his life the lived in the bad streets of Harlem and had no future. He had no help so he decided to enlist him self in the army. He thought that the Vietnam War would be over by time the was done all the training, but things quickly changed. He ended up getting injuring his knee playing basketball, he though he would be out of combat until he got better but he ended up going to nam anyway. He didn't even know how to shoot a gun at the time. In pain he travels across heading towards the war.