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"FILTERED BY TIME" is the account based on real events
of a young infantry captain deployed to Vietnam in 1964.
The United States had not yet committed to direct combat;
but in the context of the Cold War, Ed Skillman and a cadre
of several thousands of American advisors have the mission
to stop the advance of communism in the free world. Ed
leads his newly formed team as they take up residence in a
small river town in the Mekong Delta. Skillman believes his
mission is noble. In spite of growing antiwar feelings at home,
which he ignores, Ed fully commits himself to his job. It
becomes clear that the presence of Vietnamese monks around
violent incidents is more than coincidental. Dodging assassination
attempts, Ed and his team help the district chief open roads,
capture weapons, and eliminate Vietcong insurgents. Between
the ambushes and land mines, Ed explores economic incentives.
He focuses resources from the State Department, the CIA, and
the Department of Agriculture on a sugarcane crop, which results
in a second source of profit for the local rice mill: molasses.
Surrounded by hate and violence, Ed nonetheless finds friendship,
respect and an entrepreneurial spirit among the Vietnamese. But
it takes forty years for historians and events to validate Ed's
success.
