They Marched Into Sunlight (97 page)

Scott, Jimmy

Scott, Lester T., Jr.

Scott, Paul D.

scouts, Vietnamese

search-and-destroy missions

search and seal

Second Congress of Emulatory Heroic Combatants

Selective Service System.
See
draft, the

Sena, Faustin; at Black Lions reunion; en route to Vietnam; in evacuation hospital; in operation of October 17

Sensenbrenner, F. James, Jr.

Seward, William B.

Sewell, Chip

Sewell, William H.; background of;
Capital Times
on; as chancellor of UW on day after confrontation; death of; and Dow Chemical protest of October 1967; on Dow recruiting on UW campus; at faculty meeting of October 19; on Freudian theory; heart trouble of; on Hershey’s induct-theprotesters threat; as institution man; later career of; letters ton; at meeting to form investigating committee; radicals’ anger at; Selective Service research of; on Soglin; and Stark; at state senate hearings on Dow Chemical protest; teaching style of; and teach-in of April 1965; in United States Strategic Bombing Survey; as west side liberal

Shapiro, Marshall

Sharp, U.S. Grant

Shelton, Big Jim: friendship with Terry Allen; Grady encouraged by; and Gribble; on Hay’s account of ambush of October 17; identifying bodies; at Lai Khe on October 19; in network of Black Lions veterans; as obsessed with battle of October 17; and Plier; promotion to division headquarters; tells Welch about Allen’s daughters

Shor, Ira

Shriver, R. Sargent

Sidle, Winant

Sikorski, Danny; death of; family notified of his death; funeral of; letters from his sister; Milwaukee Journal article about ambush; name on Vietnam Memorial; as nearing end of his tour; return of remains of; sister’s letter returned home

Sikorski, Diane

Sikorski, Edmund

Simons, William

Six-Day War

Skidmore, Thomas

Skornicka, Joel

Sloan, John F.

Smail, John R. W.

Smith, George A.

Smith, Kent

Smith, Luther

Smith, Mark

SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee)

Snow, James A.

Soglin, Aaron

Soglin, Albert

Soglin, Paul; background of; becomes mayor of Madison; building his political base; chooses University of Wisconsin; daily routine of; in demonstration on October 21; and Cathy Dietrich; in Dow Chemical protest of February 1967; in Dow Chemical protest of October 1967; on the draft; drugs used by; on faculty meeting of October 19; first Vietnam protest of; as history major; Kauffman sued by; and Kennedy assassination; later career of; named for Paul Robeson; as National Student Association delegate; on 1967 academic year; on October 19 as pragmatist; at rally on October 20; and restraining order on disciplining Dow Chemical protesters; on San Francisco Mime Troupe; Sewell on; on Sewell’s liberalism; in sit-in against the draft; in SNCC; state senators’ plan to embarrass; in student senate; and Washington rally of October 1967

Soglin, Rose

Sorenson, Ted

Souvanna Phouma

spectacle, Debord on

Spock, Benjamin

Stark, Evan: and
Connections
newspaper; in Dow Chemical protest of February 1967; in Dow Chemical protest of October 1967; later career of; resigns from school; and Sewell; on suspension list

Steiger, William

Steiner, Alison

Stennis, John C.

Stielstra, Clarence “Stiely,”

Stielstra, Jonathan; arrest of; cuts down the flag; in Dow Chemical protest of October 1967 later career of; letters to his parents; sending his draft card back

Stielstra, Phil

Stielstra, William

Stoner, Eugene

Stroup, David: Cash interviewing; in operation of October 16; in operation of October 17; Silver Star for; Welch evacuated by

Stubbs, Mike

student deferments

Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)

Students Mobilization Committee

Sugita (Japanese general)

suicide

Swacker, Bob

Swearingen, Richard

Sydney, Marilyn

Tallent, Doug

Tarr, David W.

Taylor, Doc

Taylor, Maxwell D.

Taylor, Michael; at Black Lions reunion; en route to Vietnam; at Fort Lewis; at Lai Khe; letter home after battle; on new guys in the company; during training

Taylor, William

Teaching Assistants Association

teach-ins

tear gas

Tet Offensive

Thanh, Nguyen Chi

Thayer, Don

Thieu, Nguyen Van

Tho, Nguyen Huu

Thoma, Charles J.

Thoma, Henry Charles

Thomas, Herman

Thompson, Gerald

Thompson, Kenneth W.

Thompson, Tommy

Thoreau, Henry David

Thunder Road (Route 13)

Tigerland (Fort Polk, La.)

Time-Life corporation

Tizzio, Dominic

Tizzio, Pasquale

tree leeches

Triet, Vo Minh; along B2 Front; in ambush of Black Lions; attempting to feed his regiment; background of; after the battle of October 17; on fighting Americans; later career of; map of movements of; meets Welch after the war; in resistance against the French; on search-and-destroy missions; war name Bay Triet

Troyer, Mike; on army life; at Black Lions reunion; Cash interviewing; en route to Vietnam; at Fort Lewis; identifying Schroder’s body; at Lai Khe; letters home after battle; in operation of October 16; in operation of October 17; in operations of early October

Truong Son trail

Turner, Frederick Jackson

Twenty-fourth Evacuation Hospital

2/28 Black Lions.
See
Black Lions

United States Strategic Bombing Survey

University Community Action Party

Uprising guerrilla theater group

urban riots

Valdez, José (Top); Hanoi newspaper quoting; interviewed by the press; in operation of October 17; returns to Lai Khe; in return to battlefield on October 17; Silver Star for

Van Hise, Charles R.

Vann, John Paul

Vann, Pete

Viet Cong: alleged disarray within; as ambushers; as blending into the population; bureaucratic rigidity of; Central Office for South Viet Nam and; cutting ears off of; as deciding when to stand and fight; feeding; “Grab the enemy by the belt and hang on,”; Lai Khe villagers supporting; patience of; revenge against; Route 13 contested by; terrorism attributed to; underground tunnels of; Vietnamese peasants supporting; Vietnamese scouts killing

Viet Minh

Vietnam: anti-American sentiment in; Geneva accords of 1954; independence declared; populace as divided; September 1967 elections of; Soviet role in.
See also
Vietnam War

Vietnamese scouts

Vietnam Memorial

Vietnam Veterans against the War

Vietnam War: American embassy New Year’s party; bombing of the North; civilian casualties in; criticism of American combat methods; defoliants used in; as dilemma for Johnson; eighteen-year-olds killed in; enemy initiating battle; entertainers visiting hospitals; First Infantry Division arrives in Vietnam; Gulf of Tonkin resolution; Internet links among veterans of; Joint Chiefs’ wish list for; Kastenmeier hearings on; Laird’s reservations about; Madison
Capital Times
opposing; National Conference for a New Politics on; northern soldiers marching south; North Vietnamese role in; number of Americans killed in week ending July 15, 1967; public discontent about; search-and-destroy missions; teach-ins about; Tet Offensive; U.S. prospects in August 1967; Williams on trade and.
See also
antiwar movement; draft, the; First Infantry Division

Vinh, Nguyen Van

Vinh, Tran Quoc

Volkert, Kurt

Von Der Mehden, Fred

Vu, Vuong Thua

Vung Tau

Wade, Warren R.

Wagner, Ben

Wagner, Dave

Wagner, Grace

Walker, Jackson

war: “fog of war,”; Mosse on domestication of.
See also
Vietnam War

Warner, Terry

Warren, Robert W.

War Zone C

War Zone D

Washington, Walter

Washington, D.C., demonstration of October 1967

water buffaloes

Watson, Craig

Webster, Dan

Weigl, Bruce

Weiland, Robert

Welch, A. Clark: and Allen; as “Big Rock,” at Black Lions reunions; Bronze Star for; as chronic asthmatic; as commander of Delta Company; evacuation from the battlefield; evacuation from Vietnam; in evacuation hospital; and first sergeant Bud Barrow; as Green Beret; at Lai Khe; on leave from hospital; letter to his wife from hospital; on medals; meets Consuelo Allen; meets Triet after the war; in operation of October 15; in operation of October 16; in operation of October 17; on operation of October 17 as a fuckup; in operations of early October; returns to Vietnam; and rumors about war ending; Silver Star for; training Delta Company; Vietnamese spoken by; on war’s chaotic effects; Westmoreland pins Purple Heart on; on word
shit

Welch, Lacy

Wells, Bill

Westley, David

Westmoreland, William C.: at arrival of First Division; on battle of October 17 as a victory; on Cash’s investigation; on “cross-over” point; Dow Chemical wanting letter from; and ear-cutting incident; on engagement of October 17 as not an ambush; evacuation hospital visited by; and Gavin’s visit; and Hay; investigates events of October 17; more troops requested by; on October 18; priorities list for his army; reporting of U.S. casualties; San Francisco Mime Troupe parody of; search-and-destroy strategy of; and South Vietnamese army

Weyand, Frederick C.

Wheadon, Dave

Wheeler, Earle G.

White, Martha

Wilder, Thornton

Williams, William Appleman

Winsborough, Hal

Wisconsin, University of; Anti-Military Ball at; antiwar protests at; Army Math Research Center bombing; beer culture at; Jane Beth Brotman’s experiences at; campus map; Cash studying at; Dick Cheney as graduate student at; Lynne Cheney teaching at; CIA recruiting at; committee to investigate Dow Chemical protest formed; conservative backlash against protests at; culture at; Dow Chemical protest of February 1967; Dow Chemical protest of October 1967; Dow Chemical recruiting approved by; enrollment in fall of 1967; Faculty Document; faculty meeting of October 19; Hanoi newspapers on Dow protest; history department at; homecoming 1967; Jewish students at; legislature’s response; to Dow Chemical protest; Betty Menacher’s experiences at; on October 19; out-of-state students at; panty raid at; private dormitories at; protest leaders suspended; pursuit of truth at; rally on October 20; restraining order on disciplining Dow Chemical protesters; ROTC at; Sewell as chancellor of; silent vigil of October 22; sit-in against the draft; socialist meeting broken up at; Soglin at; state senate hearings on Dow Chemical protest; Students for a Democratic Society at; Teaching Assistants Association; teach-in of April 1965; University Community Action Party; the Wisconsin Idea.
See also
Cipperly, Jack; Fleming Robben W.; Hanson, Ralph; Harrington, Fred Harvey; Kauffman, Joseph F.; Sewell, William H.

Wisconsin State Journal
(newspaper)

Woodard, Carl

Young Americans for Freedom

Zack, Elaine Sacarny

Zeitlin, Maurice

Zumwalt, James G.

Zwicker, Robert

About the Author

David Maraniss
is an associate editor at
The Washington Post
and the author of two critically acclaimed and bestselling books,
When Pride Still Mattered: A Life of Vince Lombardi
and
First in His Class: A Biography of Bill Clinton.
He has won virtually every major award in journalism, including the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting. He lives in Washington, D.C.