A funny moment of insanity

That year, we would make a total of nine amphibious landings, operating under the new guidelines of search and destroy newly issued by General William Westmoreland. Our fire support was provided by the heavy cruiser U.S.S. St. Paul and her supporting destroyers. 

On May 18th, we began to land our Marines in the area of the DMZ, 1 day before Ho Chi Minh's birthday, the North Vietnamese had moved 2 full regiments against one lone Marine fire base. The fire fights were intense, so much so, that at night you could see the tracers from both sides crossing the DMZ zone. 

Late in the evening while trying to get the Armed Forces Radio, we came upon Hanoi Hannah, and for the first time, while carrying for our dead and wound, we could actually find a moment of outer insanity. Hannah in between playing rock and roll, would continue to tell us that we were instruments of Wall Street looking to make a profit from the war and that the American people back home did not care for us. She would call us baby killers, unwanted and unsupported by our country.