Folder 53 Harry McPherson SR 2603 pp.12, 13

What was it like?

American television was showing the terrible sight of general Luan raising his revolver to the head of a captured Vietcong and killing him. That sense of awfulness, the endlessness of the war, and the, if you'll pardon what sounds maybe like a naive expression, the unethical quality of the war, the terrible quality that did not recognize if when a man was taken prisoner he was not to be shot at point blank range. They were awful contradictions, the cables on the one side, the television on the side. It was very disturbing.