... were filled with rats that not only would steal soldiers food, but also carried lice that caused "trench fever"with their bites(Hatt 21). Dead bodies were stacked on the trench tops to make them higher and on the ground so soldiers didn't have to walk in the mud (The ... pouring onto the ground, and he had to be dragged back onto his feet. Another patient walking across the courtyard could only move slowly, his head thrashing up and down wildly. Yet another man's fits of jerking and twitching were so bad that it seemed some wild demon had possessed his ... purgatorial shadows, Drooping...

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... in America for most of that period; he had few political allies and was hesitant to trust anyone except members of his own powerful family; he was aloof and distant, a man with no popular following and neither inclined nor equipped to acquire one; and he was a devout Catholic in a Vietnam that was less than 15 percent Catholic. But Diem had sound ... for the U. S. Army. " (Palmer, pg. 102) No one knows for sure why the shots began to fire but four people were shot dead and nine were wounded. Two of those people that died were completely innocent and were only walking in between classes....

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• Grade Level: High School