Prologue pt 7 But Jim was the first to go, in one of the earliest waves of marines sent off to a place called Da Nang. A darkness had come in that year, 1965. But Silla and I pretended not to notice. Two of the dogs had litters, and Caspian was one of the puos. He was black from head to tail- a lovely, deep black that almost looked blue in the sunlight.