US Army Special Forces operative Frank Vega is sent to North Vietnam in 1964 to fight the North Vietnamese Army. In Vietnam, Frank meets Staff Sergeant "Klondike" Washington, an African-American US Army 2nd Air Cavalry Martial Artist, who eventually became his best friend. They both retire after 7 years in the Vietnam war. Frank returns to find that his girlfriend had cheated on him and remarried, as well, the Police had not allowed him to become a cop, and to top it off, he cannot get a job due to him not having a college degree. He then is forced to work as a hot dog cart vender, until 40 years later of doing the same job and living off of $800 a month, a hot dog truck takes his business. One day, he was on a bus when two skinheads nearly attack an elderly African-American, before Frank