A BOY AT WAR is complete and its 106,000 words reveal the tedium of war and its many episodes of random, chaotic violence. The 120 Marines of my company formed the point of the spear of a 24-hour standoff with the North Vietnamese Army, called Operation Badger Catch, during the TET offensive of 1968. Thirty-two Lima Company Marines died that day and the image of the mountain of 100+ dead uniformed North Vietnamese left behind after the battle still haunts me. Interwoven are chapters about my clinical counseling with over one thousand combat veterans.