It's shameful to say, but there was nothing we could do. It was four hours of pure hell. He can't remember if Richard was with them May 16. It's difficult at best to match official reports with the memories of the men, now that they're middle-aged. For that matter, it would have been hard at the time.
War is messy.
It was attacked at 1 p.m. on the 16th, about 3,000 yards northeast of the church. Richard Sutter, left, and buddies outside a bunker in Vietnam. These were his closest friends, men he'd trained with in the States and bonded with during eight months of combat only to be transferred in a routine administrative action. I would have no idea how he got there, except if he wanted to he could have, because he probably had enough initiative to go do it. He was tanner than the others, he tanned real easily.