In this special segment of Real People, Real Stories, Guest Commentator Lewis Garnett recalls the Vietnam War. In the early 50's it began as a conflict between Communist North Vietnam and anti-Communist South Vietnam. U.S Forces sided with South Vietnam in 1955. When the war ended in 1975, South Vietnam surrended...between one and two million Vietnamese died and more than 58-thousand Americans died.

Garnett traces his rise to manhood by those who served, died and came home from that brutal experience.