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Page 125
... later I heard it explode . Poor boy , poor boy . There were about one hundred and fifty left behind . They cried , asked to be shot by friends , asked for grenades . And the withdrawal was terrifying . A group of about one hundred stuck ...
... later I heard it explode . Poor boy , poor boy . There were about one hundred and fifty left behind . They cried , asked to be shot by friends , asked for grenades . And the withdrawal was terrifying . A group of about one hundred stuck ...
Page 240
... Later I knew I was right , when Luong and I talked to some Vietnamese who swore they had seen an American let loose his German shepherd to attack a man riding on a motorbike , an ordinary man on an ordinary road . Later we knew without ...
... Later I knew I was right , when Luong and I talked to some Vietnamese who swore they had seen an American let loose his German shepherd to attack a man riding on a motorbike , an ordinary man on an ordinary road . Later we knew without ...
Page 349
... later he resigned , but not quietly , to protest the war . There were fifty of them , all civilian volunteer workers fluent in Vietnamese , who signed a letter to President Lyndon B. Johnson opposing the American policies of free - fire ...
... later he resigned , but not quietly , to protest the war . There were fifty of them , all civilian volunteer workers fluent in Vietnamese , who signed a letter to President Lyndon B. Johnson opposing the American policies of free - fire ...
Contents
Together and Not Together | 61 |
Small Places | 135 |
Odd Things Not Yet Forgotten | 191 |
Copyright | |
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