More than 50 years ago, five young men from a small farming community fought in the Vietnam War. Now their stories have been written so people will know them more than "just a name on a plaque".

It was April 6, 1967, when 20-year-old Seaman Apprentice Doug Hegdahl fell overboard, off the U.S. Navy's guided missile cruiser USS Canberra and into Vietnam's Gulf of Tonkin. He spent hours in ...