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Just so. In person, close up, the Viet Nam Veterans Memorial--two skinny black granite triangles wedged onto a mound of Washington sod--is some kind of sanctum, beautiful and terrible. "We didn't plan that," says John Wheeler, chairman of the veterans' group that raised the money and built it. "I had a picture of seven-year-olds throwing a Frisbee around on the grass in front. But it's treated as a spiritual place." When Wheeler's colleague Jan Scruggs decided there ought to be a monument, he had only vague notions of what it might be like...
...vast American military commitment to Viet Nam, only eleven Marines remained on the embassy roof. Crowds of Vietnamese by this time were looting the embassy. A man's arm smashed through the window of the door leading to the rooftop helipad. A Marine jerked the arm down smartly onto the broken glass, and as the Marines waited for their deliverance, they alternated between studying the sky to the southeast and raking arms across the glass to keep the Vietnamese at bay. A Chinook-46 escorted by six Cobra gunships came fluttering in from the sea. The Marines dropped canisters...
...South China Sea, so many South Vietnamese helicopters were trying to get down onto the American flight decks that Navy crews simply pushed the landed choppers, one after another, into the sea in order to make way for the next--millions of dollars of American helicopters dumped over the side like garbage from the fantail. The spectacle became one of the last enduring images from history's most visual...
...Cross, they were received with wild jubilation and festooned with flowers. Some had rifles immediately thrust into their hands. But the men were less than half the number who had been held at the camp. A day earlier, 1,200 other blindfolded and bound Ansar prisoners had been loaded onto buses with covered windows and taken south to another detention center in Israel. The transfer at once set off international protests over what many regarded as an illegal action...
James Wilde, now TIME's Nairobi bureau chief, is haunted most by an experience in March 1965. "I spent 48 hours in a pouring monsoon helping to load the dead of the South Vietnamese 5th Airborne Battalion onto helicopters," Wilde remembers. "There were 453 of them, including six U.S. advisers. All of the corpses were rotten with rain. We were scared; we could feel the Viet Cong watching from a nearby tree line. The stench of death massaged my skin; it took years to wash away...