Forks in the Road?When you come to fork in the road ? take it!? Yogi BerraThe author, Dale W. Forsythe, endorses the clear decisiveness embodied in this Berra quote.In this second book in the Teacher, Soldier, Spy trilogy, Forks in the Road, First Lieutenant Williams is a Vietnamese language interpreter assigned to the Special Forces Green Beret camp near the Cambodian border in South Vietnam. The camp, manned by 250 Montagnard and overseen by twelve Green Berets, is overwhelmed by enemy artillery fire. Blasted out of his bunk in a near-miss, the Lieutenant is thrown from several feet and loses consciousness. As darkness falls, he regains consciousness to discover he is trapped and at risk of discovery by the North Vietnamese. To escape undetected, and survive he must slide the length of the slit trench, which leads to the edge of the tree-line and temporary safety. One-hundred-fifty meters of sewage stand between him and the freedom to fight another day. ?I crawled for what felt like a mile ? into the dark underbrush. Finally, "I collided with the twisted thick roots of a huge tree and buried myself in the damp leaves that accumulated around the roots. Before surrendering to sleep, I gave no thought to how this tree and this moment was to become the agent of change that would alter the course of my life forever.'Follow Lieutenant Williams as he navigates the hazards of the war in Vietnam in 1965.
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