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...Land unit) trained to emerge from the dark, kidnap or kill local Viet Cong leaders, then melt back into the jungle. This night their target was a village secretary reportedly holding a party meeting in Thanh Phong. The straggle of hooches lay deep in the Mekong Delta "free-fire zone," where innocent civilians had?officially, at least?been cleared out, and everyone left was deemed an enemy...
...Senator Chuck Hagel Republican of Nebraska My brother and I were in the 9th Infantry Division. We had responsibility for the Mekong Delta, so I'm familiar with the general area where Kerrey's incident occurred. Our mission was to search and destroy, kill the enemy, run ambush patrols. I don't ever really replay (killings) at all. I learned a long time ago that that's a torture I don't wish to put myself through. (But) you can't help having certain recollections when something like (Kerrey's story) comes to light. What you do is you start...
...Phong in 1969, the men were dropped off by speedboat and crept in by cover of night. Today visitors to the remote coastal village come by daylight, by road and ferry, past lush coconut groves and over the countless fingers of the Mekong River as it branches across the delta. Of late, those traveling the one-lane clay road to Thanh Phong?now home to about 380 families who fish and grow rice?include foreign journalists trying to corroborate an atrocity and Vietnamese government officials accompanying them...
...operation in February 1969 that has all the appearances of an atrocity against Vietnamese civilians. And the revelations, both through Kerrey's own shifting recollections and the even more damning account offered up by one of the men he commanded that fateful night at Thanh Phong in the Mekong Delta, look set to stoke the fires of anguish over a war that continues to haunt America to this...
...forget Jordan being carried off the floor of the Delta Center in Utah after single-handedly dismantling the Jazz even though he was ailing from...