My first memory of Vietnam is pretty gruesome. Mind you, I wasn't there, but I do have my very own haunting memory, a visual that is stuck in my mind. I was very young and liked playing with my G.I. Joes and had an interest in guns and militaria. My Mother would occasionally rent documentaries from the city library to hold my interest while she managed the handful that was my brothers.

One day she picked up a video series on Vietnam. I watched the grainy footage with great fascination of men walking through jungle foliage and F4 Phantoms streaking over rice paddies. Field reporters interviewed soldiers who would smile broadly at the camera and sheepishly adjust their helmets as they asked if they could say "Hi" to their mommas. Then the tone quickly changed when the documentary focused on the Tet Offensive of 1968. An South Veitnamese officer pointed a pistol to the head of a Vietcong man and pulled the trigger. He dropped to his knees and keeled over sideways as blood spouted from the side of his head like a drinking fountain. At least that is how I remember it. It has been many years since I have seen that footage, but it has been inked onto the surface of my brain.

This VC would rather eat a bullet than surrender to an American.

For many, America's first televised war is still a painful memory and a stain on our history. Controversial in the extreme, it has remained largely untouched by game developers who may have been reluctant to create interactive entertainment out of experiences that still haunt many of the fathers of this generation. Until recently.

You'll swear your serving in the Senator's unit.