Real Apocalypse Now, Burma-Style

Vietnam, 1969. Who didn’t admire Marlon Brando in Apocalypse Now as mysterious Walter Kurtz, a renegade Green Beret who has set himself up as a God among a local tribe. But take this: Kurtz was fiction. Over in Burma though, decades earlier, a true apocalyptic renegade U.S. soldier existed: Herman Perry, an African-American soldier who rapidly [...]

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