Word: camping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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JOHN M. DOWD 1st Lieutenant, U.S.M.C. Camp Lejeune...
Leatherneck Square. The Communists fire their artillery at Con Thien on a random schedule to keep the Marines guessing when the next bombardment or the lone round of explosives will crunch into the camp. "Those single rounds are the most dangerous," says a young Marine. "But the barrages wear you down. You just lie there shaking and saying 'Please, Christ, just get me out of this...
...well covered by U.S. guns. Approximately seven miles south of it lies Cam Lo at the southwest corner of the square. About the same distance east lies Gio Linh, at the northeast corner, with Dong Ha to its south. All four outposts, in addition to others farther south, notably Camp Carroll, can provide artillery support for one another or reinforcements if necessary...
CANTON'S railway station is an armed camp, guarded by scores of People's Liberation Army troops. You are met at the train by security officials who warn you not to leave your hotel at night and not to go far from it during the day without a guide. As you drive up Canton's main street-People's Way-you are hit by what has become China's graffiti. Every inch of just about every building is covered with posters, as if naughty children had been let loose with paint and brushes. Swarms...
...results. Protesting the results anyway, some 300 students began smearing a large election sign with paint. Police quickly drove them away with swinging clubs, and the students marched off to Independence Square to commiserate with Tri Quang. In the busy Saigon streets along the way, they accumulated almost no camp followers...