Our enemies do the same thing. Matt Brennan tells of Con, a Vietnamese scout assigned to his platoon. This individual had been a loyal Viet Cong until a North Vietnamese squad made a mistake and killed his wife and children. Now he loved to run ahead of the Americans, hunting for [North Vietnamese soldiers]…. He called the Communists gooks, just as we did, and one night I asked him why. “Con, do you think it’s right to call the VC gooks and dinks?” He shrugged. “It makes no difference to me. Everything has a name. Do you think the Americans are the only ones who do that?…My company in the
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