Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong

There is something about this story that really pisses me off. I'm still trying to figure out exactly what it is. It could be that the premise of the story is so ludicrous. A seventeen year old girl fresh out of high school leaves her home town of Cleveland!, Cleveland?, somehow ends up in-country and hooks up with 6 Green Berets. In a short period of time this big boned blondie in a "sexy pink sweater and white culottes" is accessorizing her wardrobe with a necklace of Viet Cong tongues. I kid you not! The list of nonsense in this story requires not just suspension of disbelief, but a lobotomy as well. There is a disclaimer in the first paragraph that speaks to the veracity of Rat Kiley's memory, but it is contradicted by the assertions in the following few paragraphs that he "saw it with his own eyes" and "it's no lie."Does it matter? Probably not, after all, it is just a story. Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong seems somewhat sexist and I can't help wondering if Mary Anne's white culottes ever got dirty after weeks spent in ambush in a Viet Nam jungle or did she carry her suitcase on the missions?