Virus Rodeo Three-Line Summary

A close-knit group of retired but still young Vietnam vets, still full of a sense of American Exceptionalism but nevertheless having objectively foundered in the context of 'their' War, decide that the second half of the 20^th century could be, should be, and shall be rebuilt so as to be greater yet.  Adult readers live upclose with what they know in fact to have played out while encountering a believable, even prescient, alternate reality of what might have been.