They Marched Into Sunlight

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Authors: David Maraniss

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Copyright © 2003 by David Maraniss
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including the right of reproduction
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The author and publisher gratefully acknowledge permission to reprint “Elegy” from
Archeology of the Circle,
by Bruce Weigl. Copyright © 1999 by Bruce Weigl. Used by permission of Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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Maps designed by Gene Thorp

Picture Section Credits
Tom Grady photos: 1, 11, 19, 24.
The Daily Cardinal:
2, 30, 32, 35, 42. Allen Family photo album: 3, 5. First Infantry: 4, 6. 28th Regiment photo: 7, 8, 9, 10, 16. Army Signal Corps photo: 12. Sikorski family photo album: 13, 14. Tom Hinger photo album: 15. Clark Welch collection: 17, 18. Verland Gilbertson: 20. Richard Calef: 21, 22. Ed Amorosi collection: 23. Fagan Publishing Co. postcard: 25. Jane Brotman photo album: 26. Betty Menacher photo album: 27.
The Capital Times:
28, 29, 31, 33, 43, 44.
Wisconsin State Journal:
34, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40.
Connections:
41. David Maraniss: 45. Consuelo Allen: 46. Linda Maraniss: 47.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Maraniss, David.

They marched into sunlight : war and peace, Vietnam and America, October 1967 / David Maraniss.

  p. cm.

1. Vietnamese Conflict, 1961–1975—United States. 2. Vietnamese Conflict, 1961–1975—Protest movements—United States. 3. United States—Politics and government—1963–1969.

I. Title.

DS558.M35 2003

959.704’31—dc21                                 2003052885

ISBN 13: 978-0-7432-6255-2
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Contents

 

Cast of Characters
A Brief Preface
Book One
 
1   Sailing to Vung Tau
2   Triet’s March South
3   Lai Khe, South Vietnam
4   El Paso, Texas
Book Two
 
5   Song of Napalm
6   Madison, Wisconsin
7   Soglin’s Thrill
8   Sewell’s Predicament
Book Three
 
9   “What a Funny War!”
10  Guerrilla Theater
11  Johnson’s Dilemma
12  No Mission Too Difficult
13  Michigan Men
14  For Want of Rice
15  “The Trees Are Moving”
16  Ambush
17  Holleder’s Run
18  “The News Is All Bad”
19  The Spectacle
20  “That’s All There Is?”
21  Down with Dow
22  Moments of Decision
23  Stars and Stripes
24  “Bombing Washington”
25  Body Count
26  “Tragedy Beyond Our Words”
27  A Life’s Worth
28  Until the Angels Came
Epilogue

 

Notes
Selected Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index

Cast of Characters

 

Vietnam Story

 

Albin, Ray: Delta weapons platoon mortars plotter
Allen, Consuelo: Oldest daughter of Terry Allen Jr.
Allen, Jean Ponder: Wife of Terry Allen Jr.
Allen, Terry, Jr.: 2/28 Black Lions battalion commander
Allen, Terry, Sr.: World War II First Infantry Division commander
Arias, Michael: Alpha radiotelephone operator
Barrow, Clarence: Delta first sergeant
Blackwell, James: Black Lions intelligence officer
Bolen, Jackie: Delta squad leader
Breeden, Clifford: Alpha rifleman, first man killed in October 17 battle
Buentiempo, Ernest: Alpha radiotelephone operator
Bunker, Ellsworth: U.S. ambassador to South Vietnam
Burrows, George: Reconnaissance platoon rifleman
Byrd, Dwayne: Delta acting platoon leader
Cash, John A.: Military historian of October 17 battle
Colburn, Tom: Delta rifleman from C Packet
Coleman, William: First Infantry assistant division commander
Coonly, Bill and Bebe: El Paso friends of Terry Allen Jr.
Costello, Joe: Alpha grenadier
Cron, Doug: Delta rifleman from C Packet
DePuy, William: Hay’s predecessor as First Infantry Division commander
Dowling, Francis: Black Lions sergeant major
Durham, Harold (Pinky): Delta artillery forward observer
Eastman, Phil: Doctor at Ninety-third Evacuation Hospital
Edwards, Peter: Alpha platoon leader
Erwin, Bill: Reconnaissance platoon leader
Farrell, Michael: Alpha radiotelephone operator from C Packet
Gallagher, Michael: Alpha rifleman
Garcia, Melesso: Delta rifleman from C Packet
Gavin, James G.: Retired general and war critic
George, Jim: Alpha Company commander from C Packet
Giannico, Paul: Delta rifleman from C Packet
Giap, Vo Nguyen: Commander in chief of the North Vietnamese Army
Gilliam, Jim: Delta radiotelephone operator
Grady, Tom: Alpha executive officer from C Packet
Grider, Edward: Alpha rifleman
Griego, Santiago: Delta rifleman from C Packet
Grosso, Gerard: Black Lions air operations officer
Hay, John H.: First Infantry Division commander
Hinger, Tom: Alpha medic
Ho Chi Minh: Leader of North Vietnam
Holleder, Don: First Brigade operations officer, former Army football star
Johnson, Willie C.: Alpha platoon leader
Jones, Bernard Francis: Special Forces captain
Jones, James: Alpha forward observer aide
Kasik, Jim: Bravo Company commander
Kirkpatrick, Fred: Delta point man
Lam, Nguyen Van: Commander of C-1 Company, Eighty-third Rear Service Group
Landon, Gregory: Delta radiotelephone operator from C Packet
Laub, David: Delta radiotelephone operator
Locke, Eugene M.: Deputy ambassador to South Vietnam
Lovato, Joe, Jr.: Delta Company medic
Luberda, Andrew: Delta platoon leader
McGath, Bill: Delta rifleman from C Packet
McMeel, Frank: Delta rifleman from C Packet
Miller, Peter: Delta rifleman from C Packet
Mullen, Thomas V.: Alpha platoon leader
Newman, George: First Brigade commander
Phillips, Raymond: Delta radiotelephone operator
Reece, Ronnie: Delta rifleman from C Packet
Reese, Thomas: Charlie Company commander
Schroder, Jack: Delta rifleman from C Packet
Scott, Jimmy: Delta radiotelephone operator
Scott, Paul D.: Delta radiotelephone operator
Sena, Faustin: Delta rifleman from C Packet
Shelton, Jim: Black Lions operations officer
Sikorski, Daniel: Delta machine gunner and squad leader
Sikorski, Diane: Danny’s little sister in Milwaukee
Sloan, John: Black Lions operations officer
Smith, Mark: Reconnaissance platoon sergeant
Stroup, David: Delta platoon leader
Tallent, Doug: Delta weapons platoon from C Packet
Taylor, Mike: Delta rifleman from C Packet
Thompson, Gerald: Delta squad leader
Tizzio, Pasquale: Black Lions radiotelephone operator
Triet, Vo Minh: VC First Regiment deputy commander
Troyer, Mike: Delta rifleman from C Packet
Valdez, José: Alpha first sergeant
Warner, Terry: Delta weapons sergeant from C Packet
Welch, A. Clark: Delta Company commander
Westmoreland, William C.: Military Assistance Command, Vietnam, commander
Weyand, Frederick C.: III Corps commander
Woodard, Carl: Alpha squad leader

Wisconsin Story

 

Archer, Sandra: San Francisco Mime Troupe actor
Bablitch, William: UW law student and demonstration observer
Beutel, A. P. (Dutch): Washington lobbyist for Dow Chemical Company
Boll, James: Dane County district attorney
Brandes, Stuart: History doctoral student and observer
Brandt, E. N.: Dow Chemical Company director of public relations
Brotman, Jane: UW freshman from New Jersey
Bunn, Peter: UW assistant dean of students
Center, Charles: UW business school professor

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