So say you - and when were you there?
The villagers I saw every day I was there didn't want a thing to do with the VC or the NVA - they just wanted to be free to live their own lives. They knew why were there, most of them - and they were worth protecting.
Villagers thanked the Americans for burning down their homes and crops...As long as their were guns pointed at them.
My brother and husband said the same.