1.) Has your reading of Red Clay Ashes changed your perception of the Vietnam War? 
2.) Do you have a greater sympathy towards the men who were sent there to fight, even though it was not "their fight" and a great many of them were barely out of high school? Knowing that American politicians considered their lives expendable? Boys that were sent to fight a man's war, as the saying goes. 
3.) Were you surprised to learn that journalists during the Vietnam War could just show up there and that if they had proper accreditation from a newspaper (or or three newspapers if you were a freelancer), you could get a press badge and travel anywhere/travel on American military transport to report on the war? 
4.) Do you think Hazel was a bad mother to Bee after Vince disappeared? Do you think she betrayed her word to Vince that she wouldn't do to their daughter what his own mom had done to him after his dad was killed during the Second World War?
5.) Should Hazel have left a letter for Bee to read upon her death, explaining the past? Explaining the truth about her father and her earliest years? Even in death, should Hazel have made one final attempt to restore a personal connection with her daughter? Instead of Bee learning about it by chance, and then hearing the full extent from Suzanne, a woman she had never known? Do you think she owed her daughter that? 
6.) Do you think Hazel hated Vietnam and its people for what was stolen from her? Or do you think it was a case of, she hated the men who stole her husband and her child's father from her?
7.) Do you think Hazel ever really reconciled with her past or rather, simply mentally blocked out the years she had with Vince?
8.) Were you shocked when you learned that Vince had survived? Or would you have preferred his story to have ended when he was marched into the tree line?
9.) Do you think that the journalists who reported on the war and told the truth about what was actually going on there contributed to the ultimate downfall of the American and South Vietnamese military might? Caused them to lose? Or do you think the South Vietnamese capitulation to the North was inevitable? 
10.) How much do you feel today's female journalists owe to the female reporters of the Vietnam War? Do you feel their story is acknowledged as much as in the infamous "Cronkite bombshell" of 1968, considering he only ever visited, and didn't live in the midst of a war zone as many of the female reporters did for months and in some cases, even years?