2010 Winter Olympics Medal Table

After his Vietnam duty, he was sent to Pendleton and later got an honorable discharge. His bout of impotence was behind him, but Bert felt vaguely discontent. His life had never been fulfilling in the same, exalted way it had been during combat. He could not shake the memory of the captured Viet Cong girl. Bert went to bed with lots of girls, but always the sex was the same old thing. The more girls he tried, the less interesting it got. The girls were unable to detect his unhappiness. His sexual prowess was never challenged; if anything, his performance was something to emulate. Several women had even proposed marriage to him, but Bert declined. He wasn't interested. The return to civilian life proved uneventful. Bert drifted from one job to the next, never staying long in any one place. He left his Olympic medal and the Silver Star at his parents' home on the Strand and moved around the country. A day never went by when he didn't think about the VC girl in the jungle. She was real to Bert; more real than anything he found in civilian life ...»