Download or read book Playing Basketball with the Viet Cong written by Kevin Bowen and published by Contemporary Poets Series. This book was released on 1994 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Vietnam War and its aftermath by a man who fought it. In The Quiet Americans he writes: "Two years since the American soldier returned, / told how he'd turned his claymores / facing up that night: so the warning, / This side to the enemy, pointed to the sky. / His one small act of protest in the war."