American Pies, Happy Lives, Blue Skies & Other Lies

"American Pies, Happy Lives, Blue Skies & Other Lies" is the first play of a Vietnam War trilogy which includes "Bui-Doi: The Dust of Life" and "The Wall." The story unfolds at the home of decorated Vietnam veteran Sam Adams and his wife Angel in Cambridge, Massachusetts nine years after Sam and his boyhood friend Tom Charles left for Vietnam. The year is 1977. Sam returned a hero after his tour of duty and married Angel, Tom's former fianc e. Sam has made a pile of dough as a big time stockbroker in Boston's financial district and is living good life. Tom comes home many years later, a battered but not broken man. What starts out as a friendly reunion deteriorates into a savage battle for supremacy and survival as Tom and Sam clash over the our country's attempt to spread the American dream into Asia with an excess of democratic rhetoric, economic clout, carpet bombing agent orange, and a half million boots on the ground, most of them bogged down in rice paddies. This is a story of how the Vietnam War changed all of us whether we were directly or indirectly involved.