In the brutal jungle war of Vietnam, Marine Lieutenant Joseph Harding finds his faith and beliefs challenged by a savage enemy.
Upon reaching an ambushed Marine platoon, Harding walks slowly among the mutilated dead. A seething anger courses through his veins. He looks into the distant jungle and delivers an ultimatum to the vanished enemy force:
"The Wheel-of-Fate has a way of turning and turning until suddenly it stops; and the Day of Reckoning arrives. We shall meet again, of that I am certain. We shall meet againas surely as the rising of the sun."