A moving and chilling story of childhood bonds in the 1950s where young men lived on a dare and were restricted only by their imaginations. This is a gripping tale of what the Vietnam War did to these boys and their families. The Faithful Sextant tells of Captain Robert D. McEliece as he passes through boyhood in Alexandria, Virginia to find manhood in the world of seafarers and the Vietnam War. Bob was one of thousands of civilian sailors who brought the machinery and goods to fight the war and in so doing, found that the war was brought to them.