Growing up in Oregon, Karen Trotter dreamed of traveling the world. So, when an Army Special Services recruiter approached her at her college, Trotter knew this was her opportunity. She fit the three qualifications– “21-years-old, college graduate, and single”— and packed her two suitcases for Vietnam. Retrospectively, Trotter thinks her lust for action and adventure was naive. In Vietnam, Trotter worked in two service clubs, Pleiku and Binh Long, for which she ran various programs (games, movie nights, etc.) and provided morale support for the soldiers. After her tour in Vietnam, she was transferred to Germany where she met her husband, a helicopter pilot during the war. Trotter recounts her wartime experiences, her disdain for the mistreatment of Vietnam veterans, and her personal reflections of the war today.