Given the choice . . .

[William]

Raymond Quinn believes himself to be a middle aged man living unhappily in Seattle. He meets a stranger who tells him he has been dead for over 46 years, KIA in Vietnam. He is stuck between the universe in which he believed he was living, and one parallel, neither dead or alive.

The stranger gives Ray a choice. He can go back to that unhappy existence, or visit some of the alternative lives he would have lived had he made different choices, looking for answers to questions he didn't know to ask.

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Did you serve in Vietnam? Given the choice, what would you choose to do differently?

[John]

I served in Vietnam in 1970/1971 as an infantryman for the 25th Division and the 101st Screaming Eagles. If I were given the choice, I wouldn't change a thing. Here I sit, fifty-plus years later, I'm retired and happy the way my life has turned out. Sure, there were nightmares and night sweats along the way. I've a wonderful wife of fifty-three years, a daughter, and a seven-year-old granddaughter. I wouldn't trade it for the world!

[Jimmy]

Serving in 1970, I also did it right. Nothing much I would do different except help my maid and her family get out before the fall.

[Hung]

I’ve always wondered why, when people outside of Vietnam talk about the country, so many of them only mention the Vietnam War.

[Jimmy]

It had a huge impact on many people my age. I lost 4 friends. It changed my life.