Then, in December 1967, he was drafted into the U.S. Army, and in June 1968, he was sent to Vietnam. There he saw the horrors of war.
1967. gada decembrī viņu iesauca armijā un 1968. gada jūnijā nosūtīja uz Vjetnamu, kur viņam nācās pieredzēt kara šausmas.