WOUNDED VIETCONG

... GI´s often show a compassion for the enemy that springs from admiration of their dedication and bravery. This VC had a three-day-old stomach wound. He´d picked up his intestines and put them in an enamel cooking bowl (borowed from a surprised farmer´s wife) and strapped it around his middle. As he was being carried to the headquearters company for interrogation, he indicated he was thirsty. “OK, him VC, him drink dirty water”, said the Vietnamese interpreter, pointig to the brown paddy-field. With real anger a GI told him to keep quiet, then mumbled, “Any soldier who can fight for three days with his insides out can drink from my canteen any time!”

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Philip Jones Griffiths, Vietnam Inc., New York, Collier Books, 1971: 44-5