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...Chances. In the weeks of internecine squabbling, the allies had clearly lost their gathering momentum both on the military front and in the drive to bring social and economic reform to the villages. As for the hard battlefield cost, opinion was divided. Admiral U.S. Grant Sharp Jr., the U.S. Pacific commander, thought that in spite of the turmoil, "we are doing quite well." Less sanguine officers closer to the conflict noted a sharp drop in South Vietnamese operations. One result was that for the first time in the war, U.S. combat deaths for a one-week period (ending April...
...those songs which, although unconnected with the war effort, become popular anyway and are ever after associated with the period, like Lili Marlene, Don't Sit Under The Apple Tree (With Anyone Else But Me), and Mairzy Doats. And, finally, there is the hinky-dinky-parlay-voo tradition of battlefield ballads composed by the boys themselves. Sometimes ironic, often obscene, and almost always derived from some other melody, these songs are refreshingly free of the jingoistic slush of the homeside ditties. Among their number are the pornographic They Were Only Playing Leapfrog, the hauntingly bitter. D-Day Dodgers, and that...
...fire was so heavy that for nearly a day in one paddy area the marines had to forget their hallowed rule that no body be left on the battlefield. As the marines fought toward the 36th's command post, they met machine-gun nests so tightly held that only flamethrowers could knock them out. But in the end, the 36th was decimated, with over 600 confirmed dead and perhaps as many again killed but uncounted, while allied casualties were "light...
...Donald Duncan, a former master sergeant in the U.S. Special Forces, who was the star of the evening with his biting behind-the-scenes picture of the Vietnamese battlefield...
Jested Daily News Editor Jimmy Ward on the front page: "Did you hear about the Negro marine who is serving his country well in Viet Nam? He received a telegram on the battlefield which read: 'We regret to inform you that your mother and father were killed "in action" in Los Angeles.' " When a Mississippi anti-poverty program folded, Ward bade farewell to the "slew-footed, unsoaped ragtag of human flotsam who were roaming Mississippi to create hate and provoke a killing...