A Soldier's Sweetheart is a 1998 television film directed by Thomas Michael Donnelly, starring Kiefer Sutherland, Skeet Ulrich, and Georgina Cates. Based on Tim O'Brien's short story 'Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong' from The Things They Carried, the film is set in Vietnam in 1967 and follows a medic who brings his girlfriend to his remote outpost.