"I began returning to Viet Nam early in 1995. My intent: photographing, writing, and learning about the land I first saw as a combat marine many years before. Full of youthful ignorance upon my arrival in Viet Nam, saddened and still ignorant upon my departure, I returned home with more questions than answers and more anger than I care to admit. This time, older, gentler and more mature, I hoped for a better understanding. Carrying vivid memories - some good, some not so, all intense, all needing to clarification - I navigated each day through the landscape of my emotions."