The Viet Cong and the Ditch

James Dersie, a heavy set Irish Italian from Brooklyn, was looking at a man in white robes with a goatee beard whom he took to be a Buddhist monk praying over an elderly woman. When the man shook his head, Callie struck him in the mouth with his rifle butt. As the elderly mama saan tried to get up, she too was killed. More Vietnamese shepherded by soldiers were arriving on the scene and Callie indicated a me loin voice he wanted everyone killed. The onlookers saw remnants of hundreds of human beings, shredded flesh and bone flying through the air as the shallow ravine was repeatedly sprayed with bullets. There is actually a photographer who