The Lawton Constitution & Morning Press (Lawton, Okla.), Vol. 17, No. 47, Ed. 1 Sunday, November 20, 1966 Page: 3 of 52
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ment because it had promis-
ed he would not be a fighter;
he was to be a teacher.
Without a word to his fath-
er. Minh departed from home
not to return or see his fam-
ily for six years.
His first six months with
“were slow. They carried too
much equipment. They were
weighted down and couldn’t
move well.
“Then,” he continued, “they
began to advance but it was
disorganized. We followed our
usual plan of staying in our
positions. We just waited and
fired when we had good tar-
gets.”
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It was most recent of sev-
eral trips with American GIs.
He shook his head as he
thought about it. ,
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not like the French or the gov-
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hit us, and when they check
our houses they don’t take
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lieve it. I thought it was more
like 100 or 150.
“We lost 50 men I know of
because we took their bodies
to a cemetery for burial. I
was told they were our total
losses in the fight.”
Back in War Zone C. Minh
was having second thoughts
about his allegience to the
Viet Cong. He had joined in
1959 when he was 15. and it
was called the Revolutionary
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jungle school in Zone C. It
was an intensive political in-
doctrination course, he said,
and “afterwards. I forgot
about teaching. I wanted to
do all I could to help save
Viet Nam from being enslav-
ed by the colonialists. I went
right into combat training.”
was the government soldiers
who had done it.
“I TOLD him he was lying.
He was caught. I shot him
dead.”
Minh peddaled immediately:
to the local government out-
post and turned himself in
with two weapons and several
documents.
He was interrogated repeat-
edly by Vietnamese and Am-
erican military officials.
Weeks later his mother was
brought to live with him.
When the U.S. troops push-
ed into Zone C this month.
Minh was there. He pointed
out the obscure jungle trail
that led to a hospital complex
said. “It was
would make slaves of our
families and suck Viet Nam
dry.”
“I was fiercely strong in
my belief we were doing
right,” Minh said, "until
about mid-1965. Then we be-
in a village he
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“I heard it so much.” Minh
said, “I began to doubt all I
had been told. I thought about
really going over to the gov-
ernment side.”
Then late last spring he
was given leave to go home.
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said he knew nothing. But
after two days of checking I
found out. My father had been
shot with a .45-caliber pistol
through the head and in the
side and stomach and hip.
"I knew who had done it
and asked the Viet Cong
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word about my family for
nearly seven years. And then,
when I reached home, my
mother told me father had
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James Sheehan and Kathleen
j .. Kennedy took first place in
The propaganda was s ep- d duet competition to
ped up against the -nited lead Lawton High r -
States and from 1961 on be- speech department to a second
came increasingly harsh, place finish in the regional
“ALL THE time I wanted qualifying tournament at Shaw-
to fight the Americans.” Minh
recalls. "We were told they
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Minh was a platoon leader
with a combat force whose
only job was to fight. He ex-
plained that in each battalion
there were two platoons whose
sole mission was to move in-
to a battle area, collect
wounded, bodies of dead, wea-
pons and equipment.
AT THE end of three days’
fighting, Minh’s unit (he de-
scribed it as a regiment),
which would number about
1.500 men was ordered nerth
to a village where they rest-
ed for 15 days, then returned
to Zone C.
“They told us we killed
more than 800 Americans.”
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her first place finish, won sec- Represented in the art show-
ond place in poetry interpreta- mg will be LaDell Hanson,Sa-
neg Saturday tion. Miss Haneland also took ly Conerly, Valone Radcliff Jo
nee -aturaa--, Nolhle honors finishing third Francouer, Doris Pierce, Shar-
The speech department scored double howrs finishing on Potts, Janice Reese, Ernie
14 point s_inthetwoday.evnt The Lawton debate team did Hightower. Frances Waller. Ter-
versity.Fnidayieandasatydhn tition, but placed in the semi- lie Leazer and Jo Ruffin.
(oPPing, Xh dnwjl of Okla- finals of the tournament, win- ____
homa City. ning six contests and losing Amelia Bloomer’s publication.
Also placing in the top three onthers finishing in the finals, the Lily, started in 1849, was
l.i their division and qualifying but not qualifying for the re- the first to be published by and
for regional competition were gionals, were Nancy Cowie in for women.
Lawton students Jamesj-ohn dramatic literature. James God- —---
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Tern’ Dimmick in girls ex- speaking and Terry Clem and
troubled over temporaneous speaking. Arlene Wiltz in humorous duet.1
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Americans,” Minh said.
“Then we saw them. Nobody
fired. We waited until they
were about 30 yards away.”
“Then we fired just a few
rounds, as if we were only a
few snipers—this was a favor-
ite trick of ours. The Ameri-
cans hit the ground immedi-
ately and began crawling to-
gether in bunches. We could
watch them. Then our mach-
ine guns opened up.
“IT WAS too easy.”
Minh said the Americans,
compared to the Viet Cong
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Shepler, Ned. The Lawton Constitution & Morning Press (Lawton, Okla.), Vol. 17, No. 47, Ed. 1 Sunday, November 20, 1966, newspaper, November 20, 1966; Lawton, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc2032264/m1/3/?q=Homecoming+queen+1966+North+Texas+State+University: accessed June 11, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.