ABSTRACT
Every Vietnamese is at war—either fighting, working or suffering. He is completely committed and genuinely patriotic. Washington officials may claim that it is tiny North Vietnam which is attacking big America, but the vast majority of Americans don’t feel it—and a great proportion does not even agree. In North Vietnam, however, every single man, woman and child knows that it is the American who is the aggressor. He knows it, not through propaganda or brainwashing, but because every day he hears the planes, he sees the bombs and he suffers the raids. There does not exist, I was told, an area that has not been bombed, and many areas, usually the most populated, are said to be hit almost every single day. In some cases, the planes bring not only bombs and rockets but also napalm. And, I was told, about half of all the bombs are the fragmentation type which don’t harm machines or buildings, which only rip the bark off trees, but which kill, maim and cause incredible pain to people and animals.
