In his late sixties, Sydney Kelpie decides to return to the southwest Colorado ranch on which he was raised and his family still keeps as a historic site. He comes to search through his and his familys diaries to determine if his memories coincide with the entries after his birth in 1945. He finds his past writings and goes on to describe his youth punching cattle and his early days as a soldier in South Vietnam in 1967.

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