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...Pavlo Hummel not just because of the similarity between him and Pavlo but because this play is a head-on collision with the past ten years. Out of a haze, 1966, which was AM radio in a warm spring, walks up dressed in army fatigues and presses its bayonet against your belly...
Only Basics. An instructor leads the recruits in bayonet practice with padded protective clothing. Teams of six men on each side lunge back and forth at each other shouting, red-faced and sweating. Another group practices taking apart and setting up an 82-mm. mortar. Another instructor conducts a discussion with a small group on how to destroy an M-47 American tank, using a scale model and shouting his lesson in clear, hard tones...
Glasser describes two night ambushers at work. One is intent on completing a collection of North Vietnamese army belt buckles, like Norman Mailer's Sergeant Croft collecting gold teeth. In the claustrophobic jungle night he encounters a "gook," attacks him with a bicycle chain and then with his bayonet, "knifing again and again until he could feel the head coming loose in his other hand." Back in camp at breakfast, another soldier sees the blood on his hand. "That you?" he asks. "Johnson looked thoughtfully at his hand. He seemed suddenly subdued, almost awed. 'No,' he said...
Next Prime Minister. The tales of brutality are seemingly endless. A young man whose house was being searched begged the soldiers to do anything, but to leave his 17-year-old sister alone; they spared him so he could watch them murder her with a bayonet. Colonel Abudl Hai, a Bengali physician attached to the East Bengal Regiment, was allowed to make a last phone call to his family; an hour later his body was delivered to his home. An old man who decided that Friday prayers were more important than the curfew was shot to death as he walked...
...reporters for three weeks. But the cover-up was under way before that. According to the FBI report, the Guardsmen got together and agreed to say that they had been in danger and had fired to keep from being overrun by students who wanted to grab their guns and bayonet them. The Beacon-Journal report explodes this flimsy story by quoting a Guardsman as saying, "The guys have been saying that we got to get together and stick to the same story, that it was our lives or them, a matter of survival. I told them I would tell...