Born in rural Illinois, Ken Kays was a country boy who flunked out of                  college and wound up serving as a medic in the Vietnam War. On May 7, 1970, after                  only 17 days in Vietnam and one day after joining a new platoon, the young medic                  found himself in a ferocious battle. As a conscientious objector, Kays did not carry                  any weapons, but his actions during that engagement would earn him the Congressional                  Medal of Honor. Yet Kays' valor came during just another unheralded fire fight near                  the end of a long and seemingly fruitless war. He returned home and, with other                  vets, struggled to reconcile his anti-war beliefs with what he and others had done                  in Vietnam. This dramatic and tragic story is a timely reminder of the price of war                  and the fragile comforts of peace.

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