July 25th, 2022. Lake Forest Hospital. A phone rings in a dying man's room.

Fifty years earlier, a photograph came out of Vietnam. A little girl, on fire, running down a road. You've seen it. Everyone has.

Seven days later, a plane carrying six members of one Wisconsin family went down over that same country.

Two uncles flew to Saigon to bring them home. One of them couldn't just sit and wait.

He held up his hands. I have two hands, he said. Surgical hands.

They let him in.

This is Episode 5. Two Hands.

Voice Text Andy

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