 He could see the truck in the moonlight at the top of the rise, and he looked off to one side to see it better. There was something standing beside it. Then they were gone. There's no description of a fool, he said, that you fail to satisfy. Now you're going to die. People will tell you it was Vietnam that brought this country to its knees, but I never believed that. It was already in bad shape. Vietnam was just the icing on the cake.