Venditta, a retired newspaper writer and editor, describes his quest to reconstruct a grenade accident in an American Division training explosion at Chu Lai during the Vietnam War, in which his cousin, Nicky Venditti, and two other soldiers died. Chapters detail his cousin's life and family, his arrival at Chu Lai, the accident 11 days later, his stay in the hospital, and what the author found out about the instructor and sergeant involved in the explosion. Annotation ?016 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)