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Here is the epic story of Vietnam and thesixties told through the events of a few tumultuous days in October 1967. David Maraniss takes the reader on an unforgettable journey to the battlefields of war and peace. With meticulous and captivating detail, They Marched Into Sunlight brings that catastrophic time back to life while examining questions about the meaning of dissent and the official manipulation of truth, issues that are as relevant today as they were decades ago. In a seamless narrative, Maraniss weaves together three very different worlds of that time: the death and heroism of soldiers in Vietnam, the anger and anxiety of antiwar students back home, and the confusion and obfuscating behavior of officials in Washington. In the literature of the Vietnam era, there are powerful books about soldiering, excellent analyses of American foreign policy in Southeast Asia, and many dealing with the sixties culture of protest, but this is the first book to connect the three worlds and present them in a dramatic unity. To understand what happens to the people of this story is to understand Americas anguish. In the Long Nguyen Secret Zone of Vietnam, a renowned battalion of the First Infantry Division is marching into a devastating ambush that will leave sixty-one soldiers dead and an equal number wounded. On the University of Wisconsin campus in Madison, students are staging an obstructive protest at the Commerce Building against recruiters for Dow Chemical Company, makers of napalm and Agent Orange, that ends in a bloody confrontation with club-wielding Madison police. And in Washington, President Lyndon Johnson is dealing with pressures closing in on him from all sides and lamenting to his war council, How are we ever going to win? Based on thousands of primary documents and 180 on-the-record interviews, the story unfolds day by day, hour by hour, and at times minute by minute, with a rich cast of characters -- military officers, American and Viet Cong soldiers, chancellors, professors, students, police officers, businessmen, mime troupers, a president and his men, a future mayor and future vice president -- moving toward battles that forever shaped their lives and evoked cultural and political conflicts that reverberate still.

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Also by David Maraniss

When Pride Still Mattered: A Life of Vince Lombardi

First in His Class: A Biography of Bill Clinton

The Clinton Enigma

The Prince of Tennessee: Al Gore Meets His Fate
(with Ellen Nakashima)

Tell Newt to Shut Up! (with Michael Weisskopf)

Picture 2SIMON & SCHUSTER
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Copyright 2003 by David Maraniss
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including the right of reproduction
in whole or in part in any form.

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.

SIMON & SCHUSTER and colophon are registered trademarks of Simon & Schuster, Inc.

Book design by Ellen R. Sasahara
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, 19611975United States. 2. Vietnamese Conflict, 19611975Protest movementsUnited States. 3. United StatesPolitics and government19631969.

I. Title.

DS558.M35 2003

959.70431dc21 2003052885

ISBN 13: 978-0-7432-6255-2
ISBN 0-7432-6255-7

Visit us on the World Wide Web:
http://www.SimonSays.com

TO ELLIOTT AND MARY MARANISS, MY PARENTS

Contents
Cast of Characters
A Brief Preface
Book One
1 Sailing to Vung Tau
2 Triets March South
3 Lai Khe, South Vietnam
4 El Paso, Texas
Book Two
5 Song of Napalm
6 Madison, Wisconsin
7 Soglins Thrill
8 Sewells Predicament
Book Three
9 What a Funny War!
10 Guerrilla Theater
11 Johnsons Dilemma
12 No Mission Too Difficult
13 Michigan Men
14 For Want of Rice
15 The Trees Are Moving
16 Ambush
17 Holleders Run
18 The News Is All Bad
19 The Spectacle
20 Thats 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 Lifes 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: Hays 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: Dannys 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, Jos: 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

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