Racing Back to Vietnam: A Journey in War and Peace

Synopsis

In 1971, John Pendergrass Was Seated In The Back Of An F-4 Phantom, Racing Across The Skies Of Vietnam As A United States Air Force Flight Surgeon. Forty-five Years Later, Pendergrass Boards An Altogether Different Type Of Airplane And Heads To Vietnam For An Altogether Different Kind Of Race. A Veteran Of Ironman Triathlons On Every Inhabited Continent, Racing Back To Vietnam Follows Pendergrass As He Returns To Vietnam In More Ways Than One--revisiting A Country That, For Him, Is Bound Up In A Complicated Mess Of Memory And Emotion.