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...story of Jack Tracey, currently Massachusetts Coordinator for the Vietnam Veterans Against the War, resembles that of many other soldiers who returned from Vietnam knowing that they had become unwilling victims of the war's terror. Tracey signed up for a four-year tour of duty because otherwise he would have been drafted. After going through boot camp and training as a radio operator, a superior officer convinced him to volunteer for duty in Vietnam because the waiting list for radio operators was so long he would never be called, and his offer to go would look good when...
...guard post. She did not move away after he blew his whistle; he shot and killed her, South Vietnam identification papers were removed from her body, and she entered the official body statistics as an unidentified member of the Viet Cong. This was the first of two times that Tracey shot civilians from his guard post...
Many of the veterans' experiences were more excessive then Tracey's. Sergeant Camil describes how his unit trapped villagers between two railroad bridges and slaughtered them with heavy refle barrages. Another veteran admitted that his platoon followed an order to "Shoot everything that moved" in a village, and then burn it. Interrogators were perhaps most brutal of all. They threw prisoners from helicopters to make their companions talk (one lieutenant received a medal for information discovered this way), disemboweled living prisoners and then shot them, and forced confessions by burnings and beatings...
...northeast to Bangor, Me., to take on fuel for the ocean crossing. Again Minichiello passed the word through Cook that only the fueling crew was to come near the Boeing. Soon the jet was airborne once more, this time for Shannon and Rome, with only the skyjacker, Volunteer Stewardess Tracey Coleman, and a crew of five on board...
...motion put forth by Professor Putnam to abolish ROTC in any form from the Harvard University campus. Charles E. Allen Jr. '70 Steven Roose '70 Robert W. Steinberg '69 Norman B. Epstein '71 Martin Hanlon '69 Noelle Caskey '70 David Palmer '70 Wesley E. Profit '69 Tracey R. Lecklider '69 Johnathan D. Ritvo '69 Michael A. Bundy '70 Joan S. Rubin Joe McCune '70 James Kilbreth...