Tale of two days lends perspective to Vietnam, 1960s

Tale of two days lends perspective to Vietnam, 1960s

(EXCERPT) 10/26/03

Cherokee Paul McDonald

With "They Marched Into Sunlight," David Mar aniss helps us cup in our
hands the liquid mercury that is Vietnam, America and the 1960s. His
journalistic look at two days in October 1967, when an American
infantry battalion was decimated in an ambush and an anti-war
demonstration ignited violence on the campus of the University of
Wisconsin, provides a clear-eyed, honest view of events without
dramatization.

In an area known as the Long Nguyen Secret Zone, outside of Lai Khe,
the 2/28 Black Lions of the 1st Infantry Division lost 58 men in an
action that was marked by faulty intelligence, inconsistent artillery
and air-prep fires, and the accidental placement of a large North
Vietnamese...

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