At Harmony Church: The Chronicle of an Unlikely United States Army Ranger

In the winter of 1968, J.W. Weathersby, a green United States Army second lieutenant, is on orders to depart for a combat tour in Vietnam. At a West Point wedding, however, he commits a very public faux pas and is thrust into a class of 160 select young officers who sweat and freeze through two months of brutal training at the United States Army Ranger School. J.W. joins an African American PhD candidate and a Rose Bud Sioux Harvard graduate, the three pushed together to trudge the outback as Ranger buddies. As half of the class is weeded out, they share their disparate lives and dreams of the future. The demands of the training force J.W. to struggle daily to be thrown out. At the same time, he is driven to remain. Nearly forty years later, he still wonders if he made the right decision.