"I was going to the worst place in the world and I didn't even know it yet. It was no accident that I got to be the caretaker of Colonel Walter E. Kurtz's memory any more than being back in Saigon was an accident. There is no way to tell his story without telling my own. And if his story really is a confession, then so is mine."
- Captain Benjamin L. Willard
Readers might remember Eric Karg from "A Milwaukee Mugging" which first appeared in SHP #2. In that story, Karg tells us about the incident where he was mugged at gunpoint during a drug transaction gone wrong in Milwaukee and the subsequent shame of his "winter penis parade". A seemingly endless fountain of stories (he sang for 7 seconds once), Karg is back with tales of his journey into the Heart of Darkness.
- Captain Benjamin L. Willard
Readers might remember Eric Karg from "A Milwaukee Mugging" which first appeared in SHP #2. In that story, Karg tells us about the incident where he was mugged at gunpoint during a drug transaction gone wrong in Milwaukee and the subsequent shame of his "winter penis parade". A seemingly endless fountain of stories (he sang for 7 seconds once), Karg is back with tales of his journey into the Heart of Darkness.
It begins in Bac Ha, located in the Northwestern highlands of Vietnam about 250 klicks outside Hanoi. Enjoy the first installment of The Nam Diaries as Karg shares the journal of his travels throughout my homeland. His only companions are his conscience, a liver saturated with years of searching and a bartender from Madison, Wisconsin. Karg treats us to an intimate account of his thoughts and experiences as he traverses Vietnam like a snail crawling along the edge of a straight razor. Hit the jump now soldier. It matters not if you're a short-timer or an FNG. It's time to set those widow-makers to rock and roll, we just entered the shit.
