Word: tented
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Under a small tent held up by pieces of bamboo cut and tied together in much the same way Vietnamese huts are constructed in the countryside, eight members of an artillery support company discussed the Laotian operation during a rest period...
Shortly, a thirty-eight-year-old sergeant who had been listening outside broke into the tent. The man's dark, ruddy face, hardened by the war, looked older than his age. The man, of another generation, stated authoritatively to the young troops...
...Saigon University student, drafted into the army four months ago, sat in the corner of the tent listening to the sergeant. After the older man had left, the boy, grinning, responded to the other soldiers...
...What does that man know about economics and sociology? Has he been to Saigon to see what the bars are doing to the morals of Vietnamese women and children? Will killing North Vietnamese really bring us any closer to peace?" the young man asked the troops in the tent with...
Though different opinions emerged in the conversation, a friendly atmosphere continued as the soldiers spoke in the tent. All of the soldiers were bound together by having to fight in an operation for which none felt directly responsible...