So Tom, where do you want to start this story?

I think we should start in August of 2018 on the other side of the world.

I'm in Vietnam reporting on an assignment with our crew, and the subject to the assignment is a remarkable man in his

early 70s who still looks vital and strong enough to pick up a wash tub full of bricks and

throw it over a fence. His name is Rocky Blyer, a halfback for the Pittsburgh Steelers during their dynasty in the

1970s.

And he and I are standing in a field in the Heptuck Valley in Vietnam.

The temperatures are approaching 100 and the humidity is the same, where it is sweltering and smothering.

And there's a clearing essentially in the jungle off a dirt road.

We're coming out of this wood line after we're taking that break.

We're at this exact geographical point because of what it conjures and what it represents.

Coming back to this area and what took place, trying to visualize what it was back then, as it is now,

trying to get a sense of where we were.

The place where an ambush from the Vietnam War happened,

an ambush that Rocky Blyer was caught in the center of.

This one firefight would change the course of his life and in many ways the meaning of his life.

As a man, as a football player as a veteran

and as he and i are walking around this field he's taking it all in and he's overcome by his emotions

i think about those guys that got killed.

And a short time later, he collapses.

Rock, I'm gonna let you stay down there for a little bit,

but I want this on your head, okay?

...