[Hon]

"I am pretty sure I read that Ms. Hanoi made these remarks to a bunch of students at Duke U."

It's possible that she made the same or similar remarks on several occassions. The earliest I've seen it quoted is November 22, 1969 at Michigan State University.

[SLB]

Just a few minutes to relate one incident I participated in. It was in April 1971 at a small FSB just North of Nui Ba Din (The Black Virgin Mountain). We had occupied that fire support base for a few days when as usual, all the kids in the world turned out to sell us everything from their sister to rot gut whiskey improrted from somewhere. We had tried to keep them out of the landfill we had established but our garbage was their treasure. Sure enough, one of the kids got hurt by a dud exploding. Probably a 40mm round from a M79. We brought him into the compound so the medics could work on him. The Battery Commander, Captain Barber, called for a medivac, when placing a priority on medivacs civilians were not real high so the guys in FDC told a little white lie about a GI being injured. Within a few minutes the familiar slick was sighted, we popped smoke and he landed. The pilot started to complain when he saw the injured was a civilian, but when he saw the age he said something about "hell yes, I got a brother at home about his age." We loaded him and his mom into the slick and away they went. They were back within a week, he was patched up and a little wiser about scrounging in the land fill.

Guess that was an atrocity.