The rifleman was stationed near CuChi and was part of Alpha Company, for whom he walked point or flank for 63 days.
BBC: Return to Vietnam
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The book is filled with telling anecdotes: the CuChi Tunnel soldiers who look at an overweight Western woman, unable to fit through the dug-out warrens, calculating the wealth of someone so fat.
CNN: ASIANOW - TIME Asia | Books: Catfish and Mandala