Colin

I've set this story in roughly the 1960's-70's. The setting is in Vietnam, during the Vietnam War. No names are mentioned, due to the fact that it becomes easier to make the story. If you use an actual place, it becomes harder to correlate the story with reality, since you need to have been to the place for best writing.
 * __What is the historical setting for this story?__**

The Vietnam War was a real event. Large helicopters were used as military transport, due to lack of better methods. Flying vehicles also usually have two pilots.
 * __What is true in this story?__

__What is fictional in this story?__ The main character and Ahn Dung, as well as all the others, are made up off the top of my head. It is also very unlikely that a man in the army would jump out of a helicopter without a parachute, or that a jeep would be transported by air.

This story is the first chapter of a novel in which Joseph, the main character, develops from a street bum into a soldier, and then into underground rebel working for the Vietnamese. A large part of the book will be spent looking at Joseph's memories as a child and his time as a hippie. He will have these flashbacks at moments that seem a little strange, almost like a type of clairvoyance. This is intentional, since it keeps him from dying at the beginning of the book. Joseph will die eventually, but not until the end. Ahn Hung's name means "Hero," or "Strength." He is a supporting character made to move the story along, by giving Joseph a goal. **

__**If you want to read MORE about these topics, I used these sources for my story:**__

"Weapons of the Vietnam War." Accessed 17 March 2010. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weapons_of_the_Vietnam_War.

"VDict.com - Vietnamese Dictionary and Translation - Từ điển và dịch tiếng Việt" Accessed 17 March 2010. http://vdict.com/?autotranslation