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Next to the shells, the Marines' biggest complaint is the company they must keep in their bunkers: rats, mosquitoes and flies. "The rats jump right on top of you when you are asleep," says Pfc. Robert Smith, 19. One particularly large rat is named Rockefeller, "because he always gets the best of everything." The standard tour of duty in one of the DMZ camps is 30 days, a brevity that helps make possible the grim humor with which the Marines accept their defensive watch. Atop Major Froncek's bunker stands a six-foot-high handmade catapult, which...
...PFC. JERRY L. WHITE U.S. Army Tan Son-Nhut, Viet...
Foremost among the Negro combat heroes of Viet Nam are the two who won Medals of Honor. Pfc. Milton Olive, 19, won his award posthumously by throwing himself on a grenade and saving the lives of four multicolored squadmates during a fierce fire fight near Phu Cuong in 1965. The only living Negro Medal of Honor winner in the Viet Nam war is Medic Lawrence Joel, 39, now stationed at Fort Bragg...
...well. There, no matter how close he may be to white soldiers on the line, the Negro G.I. can get away from "Chuck," the white man (the Stateside nickname "Charlie" is reserved for the Viet Cong). "Chuck's looks in those Tu Do bars!" growls one Negro pfc. "Man, they hurt more than a Claymore...
There are even more embarrassing footnotes. After Pfc. Sadao Munemori was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor, the citation of her son's heroism reached Mrs. Munemori behind the barbed wire of a relocation center at Manzanar, Calif. The American Legion canceled the charters of all Japanese American posts. In California in 1942, State Attorney General Earl Warren, campaigning for Governor, urged voters to keep Japanese out of California "so long as the flag of Nippon is flying over the Philippines...