The soldier in pink underwear

David Guttenfelder / Associated Press photo I did a stint in the Army including a year in Viet Nam. During the year I was there, my mother religiously scanned all of the news pictures in the Herald hoping she might spot a grainy wire photo of me single-handledly capturing a platoon of Viet Cong. When she saw a photo that mentioned a place I might be, she clipped out the photo and mailed it to me