A desire to join the military is fulfilled when Roger Byer signs up with the US Army in 1968 during the height of the Vietnam conflict. This decision takes the young Grenadian on a journey from the sun-soaked beaches of his island home to the jungles of wartime Vietnam and Cambodia. Then, a decade after his military service was completed, fate reconnected Roger with his past, when on the morning of October 25th 1983 the U.S Armed forces invaded his country, Grenada.