Word Of Honor -2003 Film- May 2026

That night, Deakins calls Benjamin Tyson. They haven’t spoken in twenty years. The conversation is short, sharp as broken glass.

Thirty-two years later, Vic Deakins is a successful pharmaceutical executive in upstate New York. He has a beautiful wife, a son in college, and a reputation for quiet integrity. The war is a locked drawer in his mind. Benjamin Tyson, however, never left the jungle. He teaches military history at a small college, drinks too much, and stares at the ceiling at 3 AM. The ghosts of My Lai—for that is what it was—follow him everywhere. word of honor -2003 film-

Deakins looks at his son in the gallery. He looks at the journalist, who holds a photograph of a young Vietnamese woman carrying a dead child. He thinks of the locked drawer. He thinks of the word "honor." That night, Deakins calls Benjamin Tyson