Word: unburnt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Trail. Demoralized, the Viet Cong drew back. In the morning light, more than 100 Communist dead dangled on the wire, some clutching grenades and belts of unburnt ammunition. They belonged to the battle-hardened 580th and 801st Viet Cong battalions, and the dead carried new, Communist-bloc weapons-tying the guerrillas to outside supplies of ammunition and spare parts-a sure sign of Communist confidence in ultimate victory...
...three days after this," the author relates, "his legs dragged along a body unable to break the habit of survival." At last, hardly conscious, he staggers through a mountain pass. What he sees convinces him that he has gone mad: a peaceful valley, ripening crops and an unburnt village. Seeing no people about, he breaks into a house, gorges himself and falls asleep. Later he awakens in alarm, but the habit of survival has reasserted itself too late. The village is full of soldiers, and he is trapped...