Thanks Jim. I was so lucky to be assigned to safer places there. But that sermon still resides, and I often thought it should have a place in a Vietnam novel or film: "The late Pvt X never would make love to a woman; the injured Pvt. Y never could make love to a woman, but thank God they never ......" 

It was like Fr. O'Brien's 1950s hell-fire "French kissing" lecture to 9th graders was transferred to Nam, with the same cruelty, ignorance, harshness,  and absurdity....and still without apologies.