I never planned to write a book. It was 1982, after fourteen years I finally arrived in Vietnam, and after thirteen years I returned to Earth. I have a family and a job. I've never written more than an occasional letter to an editor in my life. My stomach is full of boils. Nightmares happen all the time. I had to bring Vietnam to the surface, but I couldn't talk about it. Not after all these years. Thus began John Ketwig's powerful memoirs of the Vietnam War. Now, more than 15 years after its first publication, Sourcebook proudly brings it. "And It Rained" has been reprinted in a new edition, with new introductions by the author and eight unpublished pages of photographs. From suburban streets in northern New York to the jungles of Vietnam, and finally to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., "And It Rained" is an interesting and deeply moving story of a young man's struggle to understand his place in the global world. live a life of madness