Richard Elliott

Rain: a Sailor's Story Richard Elliott

Rich Elliott just graduated from high school. He joins the Navy to take advantage of the G. I. bill for college. The Vietnam war was just starting and he knows nothing about it. Nobody does. Within a few months, he learns firsthand what it is all about. First, his best friend gets killed, and then his girlfriend. Rich ends up on a swift boat in the Miekong River behind a pair of thirty caliber machine guns.