A gift from Lady Luck.

The South Viets located a distance off to our left flank during one particularly impressive sunset were heavily attacked. They claimed later that on that sunset and the morning of the day after they had killed hundreds of VC, an outrageous exaggeration for sure, so a few of us were sent off to investigate. Yeah, sure enough, a fight had ensued from a frontal attack but of the claimed “hundreds killed”, all we found was a scatter of corpses and one lone VC with no weapon still sheltering in a little dip in the ground. He was of the country bumpkin type found all over the rural provinces and was in poor shape physically, so our Corpsman game him some help and off he went for interrogation. That dude was lucky for sure in that he had no weapon, and survived the standard practice of sweeping the ground after an attack with heavy gunfire, a practice that meant few still lurking enemy survived it, wounded or not.