Chapter Twenty-Three Asylum on the Road to Paris, Chapter Twenty-Four, Calling Home, Chapter Twenty-Five, The Way It Mostly Was Summary

The squad arrives in Delhi and checks into the Hotel Phoenix where Lt. Corson falls in love with the proprietor's wife, Jolly Chand. They have dinner and drinks and the next morning, the Lt. and Jolly do not come down for breakfast. Berlin writes postcards to his family and friends and then goes walking around Delhi taking photographs.

It is August 1968, and the platoon returns to Chu Lai for rest. The men get homesick and one day Oscar, Eddie, Doc and Berlin go the communications detachment to use the MARS equipment to call home. Eddie calls his mother, Doc calls home and then Oscar calls his father...