This wasn't for me. I like historical fiction, and I'm all for telling people's stories that aren't otherwise always told (recognizing, of course, that we're only getting the viewpoint from a privileged white woman in this). I'm never going to love a story about the military though, and this had a lot of pro-military despite getting into anti-American policy that time. I was also SO over the personal drama.  The Vietnam War did not need *two* men with secret families, a last minute wedding call-off, a miscarriage, etc. You know what I would've loved more of instead? The Black Panther party stuff at home at the same time. Barb's brother was murdered and she's still going cross-country multiple times to help Frankie.