It was 1967 with the war in Vietnam raging on, the boys of Company B needed to escape reality. Patching up bullet wounds, Bonnie "Alice" Brighton was able to provide them just that, an escape in the form of a little drug called marijuana, but who was she really? What happens when she catches the attention of one Staff Sergeant Barnes? Was it too late for him to be saved? Barnes/OC

Just a rewrite of the scene after Elias dies back in the bunker, reviews are welcome!

A soldier returning from Vietnam is met with harassment and ridicule by the american people except for one little girl who shows him somethings are worth fighting for.

"And so like Jesus on the cross, in one last desperate attempt to survive, he raised his arms high and looked up at the sky as if to wave the helicopter over to him."-Elias's final moments

When 6 18 year olds set off to a island in the south pacific with a couple hundred men from the U.S., Australia, and New Guinea, they attack a communist filled island in order to bring the tyrannical government down.

My name is Andy Gordon, and they force me to kill people. They force me to sleep in a muddy ditch in the rain. They want me to die. Die for what? Why am I doing this? When will this stop? Who'll Stop the Rain? -Vietnam War Story

Staff Sergeant Bob Barnes was never just an ill-tempered, dangerous, indestructible soldier.

This is the story of the young Chris McKay, who is sent off to fight in Vietnam, miles from his beloved Marie. Will love conquer all, and let Chris see his beloved again? Or will the evils of war destroy him? Read on to find out:

Elias is having a bad night, Chris tries to comfort him, very light slash. This is an old story, just had it in the "Deer Hunter" section for ages, since there was no section for "Platoon" when I wrote this ...