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As far as the crucified bodies, they
weren't actually crucified with nails, but they would find VCs or
something (I never got the story on them) but, anyway, they were human
beings, obviously dead, and they would take them and string them out on
fences, on barbed wire fences, stripped, and sometimes they would take
flesh wounds, take a knife and cut the body all over the place to make
it bleed, and look gory as a reminder to the people in the village.
Also in Quang Tri City I had a friend
who was working with USAID and he was also with CIA. We used to get
drunk together, and he used to tell me about his different trips into
Laos on Air America Airlines and things. One time he asked me would I
like to accompany him to watch. He was an adviser with an ARVN group and
Kit Carson's. He asked me if I would like to accompany him into a
village that I was familiar with to see how they act.
So I went with him and when we got
there, the ARVNs had control of the situation. They didn't find any
enemy, but they found a woman with bandages. So she was questioned by
six ARVNs, and the way they questioned her, since she had bandages, they
shot her. She was hit about twenty times.
After she was questioned, and, of
course, dead, this guy came over, who was a former major, been in the
service for twenty years, and he got hungry again and came back over
working with USAID, Aid International Development. He went over there,
ripped her clothes off and took a knife and cut, from her vagina almost
all the way up, just about up to her breasts, and pulled her organs out,
completely out of her cavity, and threw them out. Then he stopped and
knelt over and commenced to peel every bit of skin off her body, and left
her there as a sign for something or other.
In one village, we wounded women and
kids going into the village, and when we got into there -- this was in
____ -- when we got into the village, me and another guy, we were
treating two unconscious babies -- not like babies, but five,
six-year-old kids and a woman lying in a hammock.
And I told the lieutenant, "these
people have to be evacuated, because if they're not evacuated -- this
lady had shrapnel in her and the kids had shrapnel in them -- they were
unconscious -- I said, "If they're not evacuated, they're going to die."
He said, "Well, forget it doc, we don't
have time to stay here and wait."
We went up on the hill, right above
this same village, and we fired down on this village the next day while
people were trying to bury their dead. We fired down on the
village at the people while they were doing their burial ceremony.
And they killed another VC -- not a VC, but another person in the
village.
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