One of the toughest guys I have ever met in my life volunteered for all three tours he did in Vietnam, he was a gung ho infantry Marine with a wife and four kids. On his last tour, his wife asked him to do something good while he was there, and he walked into an orphanage, and asked the nun "Which kid doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell?"
The nun assured him the one who had the least hope was a bi-racial ethnic Chinese/ black child, daughter of a prostitute and a GI.
He adopted her, and she grew up with us kids in our neighborhood.
My understanding is the gent was an absolute terror in combat, and simply lived for it. He found his calling in the USMC.
The Darne and that kid are the only two items I know for sure that came back from Vietnam with US servicemen.
Best,
Ted
