Sông Bé : Richard Barlow Adams : 9798989038909 : 15 Nov 2023 : Sông Bé, a factually-based narrative told in flashback from a present-day evening concert at the New Orleans Orpheum Theater, features a fit, world-renowned architect, Richard Foxworth, a West Point graduate, who reacts to what his wife finds in his old Army footlocker. It triggers long-buried memories of his role in 1968 as a second lieutenant in the Vietnam War Tet Offensive battle of Sông Bé, the physical wounds he sustained in the battle, his treatment at Rollingwood Sanitarium for post-traumatic stress, the dream that haunted him nightly after the battle, and the loss of a West Point classmate. Threaded through the story is a history of the American civil rights movement since the 1950s. The factual bases for Adams's fourth historical narrative are derived from his research and experiences as the son of a career Army officer, the first of three brothers to graduate from West Point, a Vietnam War veteran, an Army av