Word: kieu
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Dates: during 1961-1961
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...Fatherland. Among the guerrilla-diarists was Captain Nguyen Dinh Kieu, who, with 60 Viet Cong guerrillas, slipped into South Viet Nam last July. "From this day," he wrote, "I am in the fatherland again." He was a fretful commander. After noting that he had punished two guerrillas for getting drunk, he worried that deserters or poor march discipline might alert South Viet Nam Rangers. Some of his men balked at bloodshed, and Kieu wrote pedantically: "This can be remedied only by intense political activity during rest periods...
...September Captain Kieu violated that last principle by dying in a reckless frontal assault on the government-held village of Dakakoi...