B.S.
That Marine also told me how those "innocents" would replace a lightbulb in a targeted building with a 100 watter that had been filled with fine black gunpowder. Whaddaya do when you first enter a darkened room?
I'll take the word of a guy who was there over somebody who doesn't look like he was even born then.
Tell that to the guy who was walking to class and was gunned down by a scared, overzealous national guardsman.