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...Communists capture provincial capital of Quang Tri and gain control of northernmost province...
...abdication and Chicago. It was, in Critic Michael Aden's phrase, "the living-room war." The evening news on television imaged forth the village ignited with a Zippo lighter, the director of South Viet Nam's police matter-of-factly blowing out a man's brains near the An Quang pagoda, the Buddhists burning themselves to death. In a sense, all Americans became veterans; the war was mainlined electronically straight into the national bloodstream...
...Buddhists and students in Hué riot against Diem. Troops fire on crowds. In June, Buddhist monk Thich Quang Due sets himself on fire as protest against Diem. Rioting spreads in Saigon. U.S. press increasingly critical of Diem's authoritarian rule...
...take an aerial photograph of a place like Quang Tri, and then you take a photograph after B-52s have been over it. You can't believe what happened. What bothers me is that when you're there, you accept it. You rationalize it. You condone it. You say it's right because they are the enemy, and then when you come home, you can't believe that you didn't have the courage to open your mouth against that kind of murder, that kind of devastation over people, over animals...
...South: "During my stay I met a North Vietnamese journalist just returned from Quang Tri. 'We lost fewer soldiers than you think,' he said. 'In North Korea, the Chinese could send wave upon wave of soldiers into a battle, but we must be economical. We dig deep. The bombs don't hurt us as much as you think...