Que Ell One

There is a highway that travels the length of Vietnam's seacoast

from Hanoi to Saigon. Many dreadful happenings have blotted

this road for over a hundred years. It is truly a street without joy.

It is named

QL-1. There is a perennial military insult by real soldiers about those behind the lines.

For each frontline hero, there lurks ten Rear Echelon Mothers

who supply and support them. This story is about some of those Rear Echelon Mothers.

Meet a comical group of mechanics and clerks,

a wonderfully inept gaggle of men who goofballed

and occasionally graced the margins of

QL-1.