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Suicide was hardly a concern of Puller's in the summer of 1968. Back then he was trying his hardest to stay alive. Booby traps tormented him and the other soldiers deployed in the coastal region near Danang known as the Riviera. The devices were the spoor, primitive and deadly, of a mostly invisible enemy. Some were as simple as nails slathered with excrement pushed through the bottoms of discarded C-ration cans. But the booby trap Puller stepped on, while in full flight from a squad of advancing North Vietnamese regulars, was made with a howitzer shell. Puller described...
With his legs gone, Puller in an instant became half a man. It seemed virtually certain that he would leave his pregnant wife a widow. The triage experts in Danang did their heroic part, however, as, later, did the surgeons, corpsmen and therapists at the Philadelphia Naval Hospital...
...Navy officer and a U.S. Air Force officer. He also told the Daily News that two of the POWs later returned to the U.S. -- an astounding claim, if true, because the only former POW known to have been repatriated after 1973 was Marine PFC Robert Garwood, who disappeared near Danang in 1965 and resurfaced 14 years later, claiming he had been a prisoner of the North Vietnamese. Garwood was court-martialed for collaborating with the enemy...
...continues as a dull ache, a pain shared by the kin of the millions of Vietnamese killed on both sides. For most other Americans, Vietnam is as much a mystery as it was 25 years ago, when apprehensive Marines in full battle gear first waded onto the beaches near Danang. But the mystery has long been stripped of its innocence and is shrouded instead in guilt and recrimination...
...Asian peninsula." For its part, the Vietnamese government sees the Soviet presence fading in the region and wants renewed American involvement as a counterweight to growing Chinese influence. Two years ago, Hanoi floated a proposal to let the U.S. military reoccupy its former bases in Cam Ranh Bay and Danang. This month, following reports that the Soviet navy was scaling back its forces in ) Cam Ranh Bay, the Vietnamese repeated the offer. The Vietnamese would benefit from the dollars flowing into their economy from the bases. The U.S. would regain the use of facilities that the Pentagon loudly bemoaned losing...