[Pan_Yans Wife]

Having them dug in was to our advantage last time... we just used HUGE earth movers and filled in the trenches.

[ffusco]

..... At the end of my first week in-country I met an information officer in the headquarters of the 25th division at Cu Chi who showed me on his map and then from his chopper what they'd done to the Ho Bo Woods, The Vanished Ho Bo Woods, taken off by giant Rome plows and chemicals and long, slow fire, wasting hundreds of acres of cultivated plantation and wild forest alike, "denying the enemy valuable resources and cover."

from "Dispatches" by Michael Herr