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| adam_text | CONTENTS
PREFACE
/ xv
PART ONE: INTRODUCTIONS
COMMANDERS
/3
BERNARD TRAINOR It turned out the mayor of Danang was a double agent.
з
DANG
VU HIEP
With all those choppers they seemed terribly strong.
9
WAR HEROES
/ 12
ROGER DONLON We were babes in arms in every way.
12
TRAN
TH
I G UNG
I was stuck in a tunnel for seven days.
15
PAYING THE PRICE
/ 20
TA
QUANG TH1NH They carried me the whole way back to the North.
20
GEORGE WATKINS That sand was probably the only thing that saved me.
21
PHAN XUAN SINH All my ancestors are buried here.
25
WHERE IS VIETNAM?
/ 28
JO COLLINS
ljust
thought I was going to Europe.
28
DEIRDRE ENGLISH How can my country be at war and I don t know
about it?
30
PART TWO: BEGINNINGS
(1945-64)
HISTORY IS NOT MADE WITH IFS
/ 35
HENRY
PRUNIER
Tríese
were not ragtag farmers.
38
VO NGUYEN GIAP The most atrocious conflict in human history.
41
IX
X/
CONTENTS
DELIVER US FROM EVIL
/ 44
DANIEL REDMOND The doctor who won the war in Indochina.
47
RUFUS PHILLIPS Tell em I m not French before they lynch me,
50
NGO VINH
LONG If they re making maps, they re preparing for war.
54
KICK THE TIRES AND LIGHT THE FIRES
/ 60
RICHARD
OLSEN
It was like Terryand the Pirates.
62
MALCOLM BROWNE You could smell the burning flesh.
64
LE LIEU
BROWNE There was one coup after another.
72
PAUL HARE My cock lost the fight
76
THE EMPEROR HAS NO CLOTHES
/ 79
PAUL KATTENBURG What s good for Peru is good for Vietnam.
81
EVELYN COLBERT Dissent which contradicted the public optimism was
ignored.
83
CHESTER COOPER Boy, you speak just like an American.
84
SERGEI KHRUSHCHEV The Vietnamese had their own ideas.
87
PARADISE ISLAND
/ 90
JOHN SING LA UB We sent them all back with a generous gift package.
90
LUYEN
NGUYEN She divorced her second husband and waited for me.
94
PART THREE: ESCALATIONS
(1964-67)
TRAILS TO WAR
/ 101
V U T HI VIN H
The Truong Son jungle gave us life.
103
NGUYEN THI KIM
CHUY
We came home hairless with ghostly white eyes.
105
HELEN TENNANT
HEGELHEIMER I was their wife, their sister, their girlfriend.
106
YOU WANT ME TO START WORLD WAR III?
/ 112
JAMES THOMSON This was crazy and deceitful policy making.
115
SETH TILLMAN We could stop this war tomorrow.
118
CHARLES COOPER (I) He used the f-word more freely than a marine in boot
camp.
121
WALT WHITMAN ROSTOW Take the North Vietnamese city of Vinh hostage.
124
CONTENTS /
XI
CENTRAL HIGHLANDS / 128
DENNIS DEAL Man,
if we re up against this, it s gonna be a long-ass
year.
130
WARD JUST It approached the vicinity of the spiritual.
135
LE CAO
DAI Sometimes I operated all night while the staff took
turns pedaling the bicycle.
138
FROM CIVIL RIGHTS TO ANTIWAR
/ 142
JULIAN BOND They said I was guilty of treason and sedition.
143
GENERAL BAKER JR. When the call is made to free the Mississippi Delta
...
I ll be the first one in line.
146
THE ULTIMATE PROTEST
/ 150
ANNE MORRISON WELSH It was like an arrow was shot from Norman s heart.
150
FREE-FIRE ZONE
/ 156
JIM SOU
LAR
A goddamn chopper was worth three times more than
David.
156
TRIAGE
/ 162
JAMES LAFFERTY Wo draft board ever failed to meet its quotas.
164
DAVID M. SMITH The knife man.
167
SYLVIA
LUTZ
HOLLAND We saved their lives, but what life?
170
CHI NGUYEN Being wounded was not considered the worst thing that
could happen.
175
MORALE BOOSTERS
/ 177
BOBBIE KEITH I got a butterfly right on the butt. So that s my war
story.
179
JAMES BROWN After they got the funk they went back and
reloaded,
184
QUACHVANPHONG An artist can be as important in war as a soldier.
186
NANCY SMOYER
/
can t believe the
Donut
Dollies got us to do that.
188
VU
HY
THIEU Nothingwas more essential than our sandals.
190
JOE MCDONALD
/
was president of my high school marching band.
195
XII
/ CONTENTS
AIR WAR / 200
JONATHAN
SCHELL
I had my notebook right there in the plane.
202
HARLAN
S.
PINKERTON
JR. Good luck and good hunting.
209
LUU HUY
CHAO
Before I trained as a pilot I had never been in an
airplane.
212
NGUYEN QUANG SANG That was the first time I ever saw an American.
215
FRED BRANFMAN What would it be like to hide in a cave day after day for
five years?
217
PRISONERS OF WAR (I)
/ 221
PORTER HALYBURTON I don t see howyou vegot a worse place than this.
222
TRUONG MY HOA They tried to make us say, Down with
President Ho!
228
RANDY KEHLER Friction against the wheel.
231
CAMERAS, BOOKS, AND GUNS
/ 238
PHILIP JONES
GRIFFITHS (I) Go see what they did to those people with
your money.
240
LARRY
Η ΕΙ Ν
EMAN
N
We had this idea that we were king of the
fucking hill.
243
DUONG THANH PHONG We didn t need a darkroom.
247
JOAN
HOLDEN
The counterculture was visible everywhere.
250
OLIVER STONE He lived to kill. He was like a real Ahab.
253
NGUYEN DUY Whoever won, the people always lost.
256
YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA Soul Brothers, what you dying for?
257
H. D. S. GREEN WAY We would write something and the magazine would
ignore it
ifit
wasn t upbeat.
259
ANTIWAR ESCALATIONS
/ 262
TODD GITLIN A rather grandiose sense that we were the stars and
spear-carriers of history.
265
TOM ENGELHARDT It was like Vietnam had somehow come all the way into
our living rooms.
268
VIVIAN
ROTHSTEIN
What? Meet separately with women?
274
THEY SLEPT AT OUR HOUSE
/ 279
PAUL WARNKE We fought for a separate South Vietnam, but there
wasn t any South.
279
CONTENTS /
XIII
PART FOUR: THE TURNING POINT
(1968-70)
TET
/ 285
He asked me for directions to the police station.
288
Then
—
boom!
—
Tet
comes along.
290
TRAN
VAN TAN
BARRY ZORTHIAN
PHILIP JONES
GRIFFITHS (II) You re not safe in those cities.
294
NGUYEN
QUI DUC
Ί
was
livinga
double life.
295
BOB GABRIEL We buried our own men right there.
298
TU
AN VAN BAN Attack! Attack! Attack!
302
MEMORIAL DAY
1968 / 304
CLARK DOUGAN We Was Only
19—
Did You Know Him?
304
PROM JOHNSON TO NIXON
/ 307
JOHN GILLIGAN Our only shot was to help Humphrey break away from
Johnson.
309
PETER KUZNICK Political conversion was the greatest aphrodisiac.
313
J. SHAEFFER The palace guard.
316
SAMUEL
HUNTINGTON
You had to be pretty stupid to stay out in the
countryside.
319
DOUGLAS KINNARD While we had the power, it turned out they had
the will.
321
A THREE-SQUARE-MILE PIECE OF THE UNITED STATES
/ 325
TOM O HARA It was like being in a minimum-security prison.
325
JOHN DOUGLAS
MARSHALL
HUYNH PHUONG DONG
RICHARD
HOUSER
NATHAN
HOUSER
SUZI
E
SCOTT
LAM VAN
LÍCH
FAMILIES AT WAR
/ 328
You will not be welcome here again.
328
Receiving a letter was a mixed blessing.
330
They told me I needed to choose between my country
and my brother.
332
A sign this country has grown up will be when there is a
memorial erected to the war
résisters.
334
This nice young man from the FBI was here.
340
I was away from home for twenty-nine years.
341
XIV/ CONTENTS
MY
LAI
/ 343
LARRY COLBURN They were butchering people.
346
MICHAEL
BERNHARDT
The portable free-fire zone.
349
YOU LOOK LIKE A GOOK
/ 354
VINCENT OKAMOTO Damn, I m a gook.
357
WAYNE SMITH
7
was thanking God they didn t have air support.
362
CHARLEY TRUJILLO It sure as hell wasn t English only in Vietnam.
366
AN ACUTE LACK OF FORGETFULNESS
/ 371
GLORIA EMERSON Before the war, I was Miss Mary Poppins.
371
NGUYEN NGOC LUONG To get their ID cards, the girls had to go to bed with the
police.
374
FROM CAMBODIA TO KENT STATE
/ 377
ANTHONY LAKE Quitting wasn t heroic.
380
A. J. LANGGUTH I think they pictured it as a kind of huge bamboo
Pentagon.
382
TOM GRACE As much as we hated the war on April
29,
we hated it
more on April
30. 384
PART FIVE: ENDINGS
(1970-75)
THE END OF THE TUNNEL
/ 393
ALEXANDER M. HAIG JR. Even the tough guys
. . .
caved in.
397
MORTON HALPERIN Kissinger did not trust anybody fully.
402
JUDITH COBURN Vietnamization wasn t working any better than
Americanization.
407
WE REALLY BELIEVED
■ . . / 413
BEVERLY GOLOGORSKY God forbid my boss finds out I m here.
413
NGUYEN NGOC BICH Why should my son die for your country?
417
CHALMERS JOHNSON The campus was turning into a celebration of
Maoism.
422
STEVE SHERLOCK Steve Sherlock, bronze star with a V.
425
WATERGATE
/ 430
DANIEL
ELLSBERG
We re eating our young.
432
EGIL BUD KROGH Let s circle the wagons.
436
CONTENTS /
XV
THE WORLD WAS COMING
TO AN END
/ 441
FR
ANKMAGUIRE
The whole attitude was,
stand back
little brother, I ll
take care of
it. 441
CHARLES COOPER (II) All this area was Indian country.
445
GEORGE EVANS
/
didn t know there was a bad war.
449
EVERYBODY THOUGHT WE D WON THE WAR
/ 456
CHARLES HILL Reporters just kept writing as
ifit
were
Tet
68. 456
PARIS
/ 461
DANIEL DAVIDSON
/
wouldn t buy a used car from that man.
463
NGUYEN THI BINH The longest peace talks in history.
465
NGUYEN KHAC HUYNH It wasn t a mistake, it was an inexplicable crime.
468
PRISONERS OF WAR (II)
/ 470
JAY SCARBOROUGH
Ί
read Anthony Adverse about four times.
471
TRAN
NGOC CHAU The curriculum was designed to detoxicate us.
475
JOHN MCCAIN Americans like conspiracies.
480
PATTY AND EARL
HOPPERSR. What mushroom do they think we were hatched under
last week?
483
GLORIA COPPIN The government wanted to control the POW/MIA
movement.
489
COLLAPSE
/ 493
FRANK SNEPP There was classified confetti all over the trees.
496
TRUONG
TRAN
We could either lose or tie, but not win.
504
THE MERRIMENT WAS SHORT-LIVED
/ 508
LEMINHKHUE The letters remain, but the senders are gone
forever.
508
PART SIX: LEGACIES
(1975- )
MISSING IN ACTION
/ 515
TRAN
VAN BAN We saw so many parents crying for their lost
children.
515
TOM COREY Whydoyou hate the Vietnamese?
517
XVI/ CONTENTS
WAR-ZONE CHILDHOODS
/ 520
TRAN
LUONG I never got there in time to capture an American
pilot.
520
BONG MACDORAN It s not worth my energy to lay blame on anybody.
522
LOUNG
UNG
People just disappeared and you didn t say
anything.
526
TOSHIO WHELCHEL
R. HUYNH
JAYNE STANCAVAGE
SILENCES
/ 529
/
didn t want her to worry, so I lied.
529
Your real self was only for you.
530
ljust
want to know what happened.
532
SOUVENIRS
/ 534
HOANG VAN THIET They bought Zippos as a kind of birth certificate.
534
TAPS
/ 536
LEROY
V.
QUINTANA
Oldgeezers
. . .
playing taps on a tape recorder.
538
WILLIAM WESTMORELAND
/
was leading an unpopular war.
539
THAI
DAO
The first time I ever encountered the Vietnam War was
in Hollywood movies.
540
TIM O BRIEN You can t talk with people you demonize.
542
H U U N G O C
Weno
longer
hate the Americans.
545
WAYNE
KARLIN
The roof that hasn t been built.
547
DUONGTUONG Because love is stronger than enmity.
548
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
/ 551
INDEX
/ 555
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CONTENTS
PREFACE
/ xv
PART ONE: INTRODUCTIONS
COMMANDERS
/3
BERNARD TRAINOR "It turned out the mayor of Danang was a double agent."
з
DANG
VU HIEP
"With all those choppers they seemed terribly strong."
9
WAR HEROES
/ 12
ROGER DONLON 'We were babes in arms in every way."
12
TRAN
TH
I G UNG
"I was stuck in a tunnel for seven days."
15
PAYING THE PRICE
/ 20
TA
QUANG TH1NH "They carried me the whole way back to the North."
20
GEORGE WATKINS "That sand was probably the only thing that saved me."
21
PHAN XUAN SINH "All my ancestors are buried here."
25
WHERE IS VIETNAM?
/ 28
JO COLLINS
"ljust
thought I was going to Europe."
28
DEIRDRE ENGLISH "How can my country be at war and I don't know
about it?"
30
PART TWO: BEGINNINGS
(1945-64)
"HISTORY IS NOT MADE WITH IFS"
/ 35
HENRY
PRUNIER
'Tríese
were not ragtag farmers."
38
VO NGUYEN GIAP "The most atrocious conflict in human history."
41
IX
X/
CONTENTS
"DELIVER US FROM EVIL"
/ 44
DANIEL REDMOND "The doctor who won the war in Indochina."
47
RUFUS PHILLIPS "Tell 'em I'm not French before they lynch me,"
50
NGO VINH
LONG "If they're making maps, they're preparing for war."
54
"KICK THE TIRES AND LIGHT THE FIRES"
/ 60
RICHARD
OLSEN
"It was like 'Terryand the Pirates.'
" 62
MALCOLM BROWNE "You could smell the burning flesh."
64
LE LIEU
BROWNE "There was one coup after another."
72
PAUL HARE "My cock lost the fight"
76
"THE EMPEROR HAS NO CLOTHES"
/ 79
PAUL KATTENBURG "What's good for Peru is good for Vietnam."
81
EVELYN COLBERT "Dissent which contradicted the public optimism was
ignored."
83
CHESTER COOPER "Boy, you speak just like an American."
84
SERGEI KHRUSHCHEV "The Vietnamese had their own ideas."
87
"PARADISE ISLAND"
/ 90
JOHN SING LA UB "We sent them all back with a generous gift package.
" 90
LUYEN
NGUYEN "She divorced her second husband and waited for me."
94
PART THREE: ESCALATIONS
(1964-67)
TRAILS TO WAR
/ 101
V U T HI VIN H
"The Truong Son jungle gave us life.
"103
NGUYEN THI KIM
CHUY
"We came home hairless with ghostly white eyes."
105
HELEN TENNANT
HEGELHEIMER "I was their wife, their sister, their girlfriend."
106
"YOU WANT ME TO START WORLD WAR III?"
/ 112
JAMES THOMSON "This was crazy and deceitful policy making."
115
SETH TILLMAN "We could stop this war tomorrow."
118
CHARLES COOPER (I) "He used the f-word more freely than a marine in boot
camp."
121
WALT WHITMAN ROSTOW "Take the North Vietnamese city of Vinh hostage."
124
CONTENTS /
XI
CENTRAL HIGHLANDS / 128
DENNIS DEAL "Man,
if we're up against this, it's gonna be a long-ass
year."
130
WARD JUST "It approached the vicinity of the spiritual."
135
LE CAO
DAI "Sometimes I operated all night while the staff took
turns pedaling the bicycle."
138
FROM CIVIL RIGHTS TO ANTIWAR
/ 142
JULIAN BOND "They said I was guilty of treason and sedition."
143
GENERAL BAKER JR. "When the call is made to free the Mississippi Delta
.
I'll be the first one in line."
146
"THE ULTIMATE PROTEST"
/ 150
ANNE MORRISON WELSH "It was like an arrow was shot from Norman's heart."
150
FREE-FIRE ZONE
/ 156
JIM SOU
LAR
"A goddamn chopper was worth three times more than
David."
156
TRIAGE
/ 162
JAMES LAFFERTY 'Wo draft board ever failed to meet its quotas."
164
DAVID M. SMITH "The knife man."
167
SYLVIA
LUTZ
HOLLAND "We saved their lives, but what life?"
170
CHI NGUYEN "Being wounded was not considered the worst thing that
could happen."
175
MORALE BOOSTERS
/ 177
BOBBIE KEITH "I got a butterfly right on the butt. So that's my war
story."
179
JAMES BROWN "After they got the funk they went back and
reloaded,"
184
QUACHVANPHONG "An artist can be as important in war as a soldier.
"186
NANCY SMOYER
"/
can't believe the
Donut
Dollies got us to do that."
188
VU
HY
THIEU "Nothingwas more essential than our sandals."
190
JOE MCDONALD
"/
was president of my high school marching band."
195
XII
/ CONTENTS
AIR WAR / 200
JONATHAN
SCHELL
"I had my notebook right there in the plane."
202
HARLAN
S.
PINKERTON
JR. "Good luck and good hunting."
209
LUU HUY
CHAO
"Before I trained as a pilot I had never been in an
airplane."
212
NGUYEN QUANG SANG "That was the first time I ever saw an American."
215
FRED BRANFMAN "What would it be like to hide in a cave day after day for
five years?"
217
PRISONERS OF WAR (I)
/ 221
PORTER HALYBURTON "I don't see howyou'vegot a worse place than this."
222
TRUONG MY HOA "They tried to make us say, 'Down with
President Ho!'"
228
RANDY KEHLER "Friction against the wheel."
231
CAMERAS, BOOKS, AND GUNS
/ 238
PHILIP JONES
GRIFFITHS (I) "Go see what they did to those people with
your money."
240
LARRY
Η ΕΙ Ν
EMAN
N
"We had this idea that we were king of the
fucking hill."
243
DUONG THANH PHONG "We didn't need a darkroom."
247
JOAN
HOLDEN
"The counterculture was visible everywhere."
250
OLIVER STONE "He lived to kill. He was like a real Ahab."
253
NGUYEN DUY "Whoever won, the people always lost."
256
YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA "Soul Brothers, what you dying for?"
257
H. D. S. GREEN WAY "We would write something and the magazine would
ignore it
ifit
wasn't upbeat."
259
ANTIWAR ESCALATIONS
/ 262
TODD GITLIN "A rather grandiose sense that we were the stars and
spear-carriers of history."
265
TOM ENGELHARDT "It was like Vietnam had somehow come all the way into
our living rooms."
268
VIVIAN
ROTHSTEIN
"What? Meet separately with women?"
274
"THEY SLEPT AT OUR HOUSE"
/ 279
PAUL WARNKE "We fought for a separate South Vietnam, but there
wasn't any South."
279
CONTENTS /
XIII
PART FOUR: THE TURNING POINT
(1968-70)
TET
/ 285
'He asked me for directions to the police station."
288
"Then
—
boom!
—
Tet
comes along."
290
TRAN
VAN TAN
BARRY ZORTHIAN
PHILIP JONES
GRIFFITHS (II) "You're not safe in those cities."
294
NGUYEN
QUI DUC
Ί
was
livinga
double life."
295
BOB GABRIEL "We buried our own men right there."
298
TU
AN VAN BAN "Attack! Attack! Attack!"
302
MEMORIAL DAY
1968 / 304
CLARK DOUGAN "We Was Only
19—
Did You Know Him?"
304
PROM JOHNSON TO NIXON
/ 307
JOHN GILLIGAN "Our only shot was to help Humphrey break away from
Johnson."
309
PETER KUZNICK "Political conversion was the greatest aphrodisiac."
313
J. SHAEFFER "The palace guard."
316
SAMUEL
HUNTINGTON
"You had to be pretty stupid to stay out in the
countryside."
319
DOUGLAS KINNARD "While we had the power, it turned out they had
the will."
321
"A THREE-SQUARE-MILE PIECE OF THE UNITED STATES"
/ 325
TOM O'HARA "It was like being in a minimum-security prison."
325
JOHN DOUGLAS
MARSHALL
HUYNH PHUONG DONG
RICHARD
HOUSER
NATHAN
HOUSER
SUZI
E
SCOTT
LAM VAN
LÍCH
FAMILIES AT WAR
/ 328
"You will not be welcome here again."
328
"Receiving a letter was a mixed blessing."
330
"They told me I needed to choose between my country
and my brother."
332
"A sign this country has grown up will be when there is a
memorial erected to the war
résisters."
334
"This nice young man from the FBI was here."
340
"I was away from home for twenty-nine years.
"341
XIV/ CONTENTS
MY
LAI
/ 343
LARRY COLBURN "They were butchering people."
346
MICHAEL
BERNHARDT
"The portable free-fire zone."
349
"YOU LOOK LIKE A GOOK"
/ 354
VINCENT OKAMOTO "Damn, I'm a gook."
357
WAYNE SMITH
7
was thanking God they didn't have air support."
362
CHARLEY TRUJILLO "It sure as hell wasn't 'English only' in Vietnam."
366
"AN ACUTE LACK OF FORGETFULNESS"
/ 371
GLORIA EMERSON "Before the war, I was Miss Mary Poppins.
"371
NGUYEN NGOC LUONG "To get their ID cards, the girls had to go to bed with the
police."
374
FROM CAMBODIA TO KENT STATE
/ 377
ANTHONY LAKE "Quitting wasn't heroic."
380
A. J. LANGGUTH "I think they pictured it as a kind of huge bamboo
Pentagon."
382
TOM GRACE "As much as we hated the war on April
29,
we hated it
more on April
30." 384
PART FIVE: ENDINGS
(1970-75)
THE END OF THE TUNNEL
/ 393
ALEXANDER M. HAIG JR. "Even the tough guys
. . .
caved in."
397
MORTON HALPERIN "Kissinger did not trust anybody fully."
402
JUDITH COBURN "Vietnamization wasn't working any better than
Americanization."
407
"WE REALLY BELIEVED
■ . ." / 413
BEVERLY GOLOGORSKY "God forbid my boss finds out I'm here."
413
NGUYEN NGOC BICH "Why should my son die for your country?"
417
CHALMERS JOHNSON "The campus was turning into a celebration of
Maoism."
422
STEVE SHERLOCK "Steve Sherlock, bronze star with a V."
425
WATERGATE
/ 430
DANIEL
ELLSBERG
"We're eating our young."
432
EGIL "BUD" KROGH "Let's circle the wagons."
436
CONTENTS /
XV
"THE WORLD WAS COMING
TO AN END"
/ 441
FR
ANKMAGUIRE
"The whole attitude was,
stand back
little brother, I'll
take care of
it." 441
CHARLES COOPER (II) "All this area was Indian country."
445
GEORGE EVANS
"/
didn't know there was a bad war."
449
"EVERYBODY THOUGHT WE'D WON THE WAR"
/ 456
CHARLES HILL "Reporters just kept writing as
ifit
were
Tet
'68." 456
PARIS
/ 461
DANIEL DAVIDSON
"/
wouldn't buy a used car from that man."
463
NGUYEN THI BINH "The longest peace talks in history."
465
NGUYEN KHAC HUYNH "It wasn't a mistake, it was an inexplicable crime."
468
PRISONERS OF WAR (II)
/ 470
JAY SCARBOROUGH
Ί
read Anthony Adverse about four times."
471
TRAN
NGOC CHAU "The curriculum was designed to 'detoxicate' us."
475
JOHN MCCAIN "Americans like conspiracies."
480
PATTY AND EARL
HOPPERSR. "What mushroom do they think we were hatched under
last week?"
483
GLORIA COPPIN "The government wanted to control the POW/MIA
movement."
489
COLLAPSE
/ 493
FRANK SNEPP "There was classified confetti all over the trees."
496
TRUONG
TRAN
"We could either lose or tie, but not win."
504
"THE MERRIMENT WAS SHORT-LIVED"
/ 508
LEMINHKHUE "The letters remain, but the senders are gone
forever."
508
PART SIX: LEGACIES
(1975- )
MISSING IN ACTION
/ 515
TRAN
VAN BAN "We saw so many parents crying for their lost
children."
515
TOM COREY "Whydoyou hate the Vietnamese?"
517
XVI/ CONTENTS
WAR-ZONE CHILDHOODS
/ 520
TRAN
LUONG "I never got there in time to capture an American
pilot."
520
BONG MACDORAN "It's not worth my energy to lay blame on anybody."
522
LOUNG
UNG
"People just disappeared and you didn 't say
anything."
526
TOSHIO WHELCHEL
R. HUYNH
JAYNE STANCAVAGE
SILENCES
/ 529
"/
didn't want her to worry, so I lied."
529
"Your real self was only for you."
530
"ljust
want to know what happened."
532
SOUVENIRS
/ 534
HOANG VAN THIET "They bought Zippos as a kind of birth certificate."
534
TAPS
/ 536
LEROY
V.
QUINTANA
"Oldgeezers
. . .
playing taps on a tape recorder."
538
WILLIAM WESTMORELAND
"/
was leading an unpopular war."
539
THAI
DAO
"The first time I ever encountered the Vietnam War was
in Hollywood movies."
540
TIM O'BRIEN "You can't talk with people you demonize."
542
H U U N G O C
"Weno
longer
hate the Americans.
"545
WAYNE
KARLIN
"The roof that hasn't been built."
547
DUONGTUONG "Because love is stronger than enmity.
"548
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
/ 551
INDEX
/ 555 |
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