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— main menu —blog about books - legend - fearless - the only thing worth dying for - the last season purchase contact. legend now available in paperback at fine booksellers everywhere. the unforgettable account and courageous actions of the u.s. army’s 240th as*ault helicopter company and green beret staff sergeant roy benavidez, who risked everything to rescue a special forces team trapped behind enemy lines. > a magnificent narrative, painstakingly told by a master > storyteller. 48 years ago, on 2 may, 1968 a legendary battle was fought, and a legend was born. these are but a few of the men who were there. thank you for your service. i hope i’ve honored you–and your buddies who did not come home that day–by telling your story and theirs.. thank you neighbor: a new dedication to the paperback edition of legend. during the summer of 1978, ten years after the events this book recounts took place, i was nine years old. we had a neighbor, who lived in a trailer, that was nice to me. i was a latchkey kid, so i’d take the bus home from school, and when my parents were at work, he’d toss the football to me, his wife would give me cookies, that kind of thing. one day i asked him about an old photo on his wall of a group of army men, standing all covered in dirt, holding guns in front of a helicopter and he pointed out one of them and said it was him. he pulled out an old photo album and while i sat mesmerized by the photos told me a little bit about the vietnam war. toward the end, there was a photo of a helmet with a big dent on one side, and he explained that was where he’d been hit by a mortar, a dud that glanced off the side of his head, knocked him out cold, and he woke up in a hospital bed. that was his ticket home. a buddy had taken a photo of the helmet and sent it to him. they’d thought he was dead. that story sparked my fascination with the war in vietnam. my mom ordered me a collection of hardcover books, i think from time magazine, that covered the entire war. a new one would come each month, and i would