From memoir of war and loss, ?Into Sunlight? seeks to heal

In the bright daylight of Oct. 17, 1967, a U.S. infantry battalion known as the Black Lions marched into an ambush in the Vietnamese jungle that left 61 of its members dead. Just 20 miles away, a young soldier named Scott Higgins, who?d arrived in country a few days before, was celebrating his 22nd birthday.