Bennie Adkins tells the remarkable story of his life and times in Vietnam as an Army Special Forces sergeant. He relates the story of the actions for which he was awarded the Medal of Honor—48 years afterwards because most of the facts were classified. He describes the 38-hour hard fought battle at Special Forces Camp A Shau in March of 1966, which ended with the camp being overrun by a large enemy force after a company of Civilian Irregular Defense Forces inside the wire at the A Shau Camp betrayed them and joined the North Vietnamese, sparking a “little hand grenade fight.” Sergeant Adkins, already wounded multiple times, missed the final evacuation helicopter because he was trying to save a mortally wounded SF teammate. He escaped into the jungle with several others, including the wounded comrade, evaded capture for 48 hours, and watched the shoot down of his rescue helicopter. He describes how the little group was ultimately saved from the North Vietnamese by a 400-pound tiger.