The Vietnam War ended 46 years ago but for veteran Stanley Adams the war is still vivid in his memory.

Mokane to Mole City paints a picture of those memories, helping Adams find some peace in the war that affected the lives of so many.

Adams was drafted in May of 1968. He was just 20 years old when he was dropped right in the middle of the action in Vietnam.

"The first distinct thing that I remember getting off the plane. We had to get off the plane because they were bombing the runway," Adams said.

"And a train came by and had all these little and had all these little trailers behind it and there were bodies in the trailers."

Adams was part of the "Manchu" regiment and fought alongside the 25th Infantry “Tropic Lightning” Division.

They were tasked with building Mole City, a combat patrol base camp in the thick of enemy territory.

"We knew we were going to get hit, all the older guys were telling us to make sure everything is uptight because we are going to get hit sooner or later," Adams said.

And just before midnight on December 22 of 1968, the North Vietnam Army attacked Mole City and Adams endured the fight of his life.

"We started getting mortar rounds in and they started shooting flares up. Before the night was over they took over three bunkers on one side and three bunkers on the other side of the road," he said.

"The enemy had got inside the basecamps so we were not only firing out of the bunkers out where the enemy was outside but they were also inside so you didn't know who was running around inside the basecamp."

Adams said he likely would have died in that battle if not for one hard but smart decision by one of the captains.

The final resort call was made and artillery was brought down on the camp.

"They sent around the bunker line everybody stays in the bunkers don't get out and that's when they started calling in that. If Captain Pulliam wouldn't have done that I don't think we would have made it out of there," Adams said.

Now he is working with therapists on his own PTSD, still reliving the most frightening moments in dreams.

"My buddy he gets hit, and I'm saying well I'm not going to be taken alive so there I am fighting at the very end, and all of a sudden I wake up in sweat so that is the kind of dreams I've had and it's bothered me and to this day I haven't gotten rid of those," he said.

Stan and his wife Rita have reconnected and kept in touch with other "Manchu" veterans, and gold star families whose sons never made it back to the United States.

"It was a big relief seeing all the guys that you were with that you fought with, cried with, and got scared with. To see them in civilian clothes, older, fatter, hair all grey and everything to see them at that it made it calm to see them like that. You had this feeling of I finally made it home," Adams said.

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