They weren't supposed to win. That was the political caveat the majority never understood or knew about, especially the American soldiers and their Allies fighting in the jungles and in the air war over Vietnam. The "Garden of Eden" begins with the Southern Circle Drive-In Restaurant in South Knoxville. Three prodigals, John, Bubba, and Red, who hang out there decide to make something of themselves and join the Marines. Next comes Parris Island. Then Vietnam came rolling down the tracks and world flew off it's axis. The Vietnam War was not lost by the men and women who served and died there It was lost by a host of U.S. citizens, many like today, who never set foot in harm's way.