Jim Fairhall

Jim Fairhall is an award-winning poet and scholar, and has won the John Guyon Prize for Nonfiction (Crab Orchard Review) for his memoir “Nui Khe,” which was chosen as a "notable" essay for Best American Essays.

Eagle Beach

Toward the end of the monsoon, after humping the green-roofed mountains and the elephant-grass hills southwest of Hué so long that they’d become my home, I got a rear job. There was an opening in the security platoon at Eagle Beach: I’d finish my tour of duty there. This was a lucky break, since the Army could just as well have made me a clerk in muddy Phu Bai, the rear area of my battalion.