The process, the new government promises, will last three to 30 days, depending on rank. Hung's typed summons orders him to appear at a school three miles away. The night before he leaves, Hung, his wife and their children sit down for what they fear could be their last supper together as a family. Rice, catfish and sweet-sour soup. But no one eats much.
Questions fill the air.
HUNG was a lieutenant colonel in 1969, heading up a South Vietnamese military press office. No one knows. Hung pushes away his saucer of soup and turns to his wife. But Hung can't stop. If I don't return in a month, consider me dead.