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Originally posted by Sniper:
You'll all have seen the camera footage of the VC being shot in the head, right in full view of the media. He was dressed as an ordinary civilian and you see his body fall to the street and blood coming from the wound. That was the '68 Tet Offensive.
The guy who shot him was a senior South Vietnamese officer. He had been at the US Embassy when he was told that the VC had attacked his home. When he and his men arrived, they found that the VC had butchered his wife, his children and his Sister in Law. The VC who was shot was captured in the house.... I would have done the same.
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Are you really sure about this story? AFAIK, the man shooting the handcuffed Vietcong with the plaid shirt during the Tet-offensive Feb. 1968 was the South Vietnamese Birgadier General
Nguyen Ngoc Loan.
The idea that Loan's wife was killed by this particular Vietcong or even at all is rubbish. But it seem true that the Vietcong killed or injured some of Loan's men.
Oriana Fallaci interviewed the injured Loan in May 1968. His wife and father were sitting next to him.
Fallaci's book "Nothing and Amen" deals in-depth with this time period, the incident and the person of General Loan. Very recommended reading.
Cheers,