Behind him is the presidential suite. The suite has a gaping hole in its roof and smoke is rising from the room. Amidst the debris, we can barely make out a body. A lone cross, 20-feet high, the church surrounding it reduced to rubble, dominates a scene of horror. An area two blocks long and a block wide has been devastated in an early morning rocket attack and ensuing fire.
Medical personnel pull a corpse from the still smoking rubble.
Women walk through the debris, crying softly into handkerchiefs. Occasionally, someone will find a child's body in the wreckage, and start to wail. As I take pictures, I notice a pretty TV reporter I have never seen before, wearing a print blouse, skirt and boots. She looks out of place as she shoots her standup in the midst of the debris. ABC's Hillary Brown has just arrived in Vietnam.