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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...
...Army has never suggested that the enemy's atrocities justify those by Americans. In practice, though, military courts sometimes follow the unofficial "mere gook" rule, which devalues Vietnamese lives. One Army captain was accused of murder after ordering a trooper to shoot a captured Viet Cong. The court was told that he had commanded: "I don't care about prisoners. I want a body count. I want that man shot." Nevertheless the captain was acquitted...
...something like it, but wonder whether they can. "I don't want to go back to the States, and certainly not back to Houston, Texas," said a black G.I. who is married to a Vietnamese. "They would call me a 'nigger' and my wife a 'gook,' and they would never leave us alone. But I can't get a civilian job here when I get out of the service...
...walls of bars and latrines through-out the country, whites infuriated blacks by scrawling such phrases as "Niggers eat shit" and "I'd prefer a gook to a nigger...
...attempt to face and understand My Lai, some contributing causes help explain, if not condone. There is, unfortunately, a racial element. To the G.I., the Vietnamese, both North and South, "slant." is a "gook," "dink," "slope".; The terms, often used unthinkingly, tend to shift the object into a thing rather than a person ? and hence something that it is easier to kill...