"i began to see that the picture was not black and white, like i had believed at the beginning," she says. "Think for people whose backs were against te wall ... seeing the evidence doesn't mean that you change your mind." The viakong is not some abstract force; they were a personal threat to elliot's family.
In the early 1960s the Pentagon set up a top-secret research project in an old villa in downtown Saigon. The task? To interview captured North Vietnamese soldiers and guerrillas in order to measure the effect of relentless U.S. bombing on their morale. Yet despite a wealth of great data, even the leaders of the study couldn’t agree on what it meant.
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