Casualties Of War Page #6

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-Who shot her?

-Everybody shot...

-You saw these people shoot?

-Yes, sir.

-I saw them shoot her.

-If she was dead...

...when did they rape her?

Jesus.

That was before.

At the hooch.

Guess what?

This is a grade A bullshit story.

Do you know why?

-It isn't.

-But it is.

Because if what you're telling us is

true and you hiked in and hiked out...

...and these things happened

the way you're telling it...

...you would've never made it

walking back.

You would've been K.I.A.

I was choppered out.

I said we walked in.

-I was medevaced out.

-You were choppered out?

-Yes, sir.

-So then what happened?

After they shot her, what happened?

What'd they do with the body?

She's there.

The body is there, sir.

So if someone went out there,

they could find the body.

Yes, sir.

Couldn't let it rest, could you?

You had to push it.

Go to hell.

Sir!

So you don't feel responsible

for the rape and murder?

No, sir. I don't.

Is it your feeling, Corporal Clark...

...that you are wrongly brought

to trial by the U.S. Government?

I don't have anything

against the government.

But I just think soldiers

like Tony Meserve and me...

...belong out in combat...

...not here.

Throw us in the stockade and you're

helping nobody but the Viet Cong.

When Sergeant Meserve called you,

did you go willingly into the hootch...

...and rape the girl...

...Tran Thi Oahn?

Please answer the question.

Yes, sir. Yes, sir.

Have you any idea why Eriksson

stayed out of the hootch?

Well, he was brand-new, sir.

I was there a lot longer than him.

At least three weeks longer than him.

You're saying, then...

...you involved yourself in rape

to avoid being ridiculed?

When you go out on a patrol, sir...

...you're not gonna be

as good as you wanna be.

These guys aren't helping you

do anything.

There's gonna be four people

on that patrol, and an individual.

And so I did what I did,

and I got remorse about it.

But I also got remorse

about talking at this trial.

I have a loyalty to the men

I was out there with.

Is it standard for U.S. personnel...

...to have sex with prisoners

and kill them?

-Objection!

-Overruled.

The prisoner tried to give away

the squad's position.

She was ill and coughing

from the abuse of you and your men.

She shouldn't have been there

to jeopardize your position!

You dragged her out

and raped her!

And then you blame her for coughing,

so you kill her!

-Does that about sum it up?

-Objection.

Overruled.

Well, sir...

...l've seen a lot of killing...

...which it's our duty to do,

because it's kill or be killed.

Sometimes you hate

the enemy so badly...

About two ops back...

...Operation Turner...

...we saw a hootch

that had been burned down.

Some Vietnamese were carrying kids

out of a bunker.

They suffered

from smoke inhalation.

I gave one small child

mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.

That just shows you

we ain't all combat over here.

Isn't it true that shortly before

the incident on Hill 209...

...you were involved in an action...

...during which you were put out

on flank security?

Where you failed utterly...

...to either protect

your fellow soldiers...

...or regroup

according to your instruction?

It was a mortar situation, sir.

The concussion opened up

the earth underneath me.

I was in a tunnel. I fell in the dirt,

there was dirt collapsed all around me.

I couldn't move, sir.

And who helped you?

Sergeant Meserve.

-Do you respect Sergeant Meserve?

-No, sir.

Are you afraid of him?

Not if he doesn't have

a weapon, sir, no.

And during this alleged rape...

...you went off to sit in the jungle.

Is that correct?

-I was placed on...

-Were you off in the jungle?

-Yes or no? Answer the question.

-Yes, sir.

Does sexual activity

always repulse you in this way?

Isn't it true you went to figure out

how to use this incident...

-...to get out of the infantry?

-Objection.

Didn't you fabricate your charges

against them to avoid combat duty?

-Objection.

-I applied for tunnel rat, sir.

-That's hazardous duty.

-I know what you applied for.

And I know what you're doing.

You're working as an orderly...

...and a witness.

And neither one is hazardous.

Why the hell didn't you just let

that girl go when you had the chance?

In fact, if you wanted to save her

so badly, why didn't you just shoot...

...the other members of your patrol

and be done with it?

-I thought about it.

-But you didn't do it, did you?

Because you were watching out

for your own sweet ass...

-...is why you didn't do it.

-Objection, sir.

I probably should have shot him.

Yeah, I probably

should have shot Clark.

And Meserve.

Yeah, I probably should have

shot them. Yes, sir...

...instead of what I did...

...which was nothing.

They killed her, sir.

I mean, they f***ing killed her!

Of the charges of rape

and unpremeditated murder...

...PFC Diaz is found guilty...

...sentenced to eight years'

hard labour.

Of the charge of rape,

PFC Hatcher is found guilty...

...and sentenced

to 15 years' hard labour.

Of the charges of rape

and premeditated murder...

...Corporal Clark is found guilty...

...sentenced to life imprisonment

at hard labour.

Of the charge of

unpremeditated murder...

...Sergeant E5 Meserve

is found guilty...

...sentenced to 10 years'

hard labour.

Sentences will begin immediately...

...at U.S. Disciplinary Barracks,

Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas.

Prisoners dismissed.

If these guys get convicted,

they won't do any real time.

They'll be out of the stockade

before you know it.

And if I was them, I'd be pissed off.

Wouldn't you?

I'd be looking for payback!

Excuse me. Excuse me, miss!

-You forgot this.

-Oh, thank you. Bye.

Do I remind you of someone?

Yeah.

You had a bad dream, didn't you?

Yes.

It's over now, I think.

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