“I want to rail”: Stanley Karnow, Vietnam: A History—the First Complete Account of Vietnam at War (New York: Viking, 1983), 100.
1.1 million Communist combatants: Encyclopedia Britannica, s.v. “Vietnam War,” www.britannica.com/event/Vietnam-War.
2.5 million Vietnam veterans: Tom Valentine, “Vietnam War Veterans,” the Vietnam War, April 7, 2014, http://thevietnamwar.info/vietnam-war-veterans/.
58,000 American Vietnam War veterans: Encyclopedia Britannica, s.v. “Vietnam War,” www.britannica.com/event/Vietnam-War.
“All men are created equal”: “Declaration of Independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam,” History Matters, http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5139/.
“will of heaven”: Frances Fitzgerald, Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam (Boston: Little, Brown, 1972), 24.
“twice sold our country”: “Declaration.”
“You can kill”: Stanley Karnow, Vietnam: A History—the First Complete Account of Vietnam at War (New York: Viking, 1983), 183.
Ninety thousand French soldiers: Karnow, Vietnam, 188.
“The Japanese have”: Phuong Xuan and Danièle Mazingarbe, Ao Dai: My War, My Country, My Vietnam (New York: EMQUAD International, 2004), 50.
“From this day”: Xuan and Mazingarbe, Ao Dai, 53–54.
“French soldiers”: Xuan and Mazingarbe, Ao Dai, 58.
“Why are you crying?”: Xuan and Mazingarbe, Ao Dai, 106.
“Nothing we had heard”: Xuan and Mazingarbe, Ao Dai, 129.
“The atmosphere”: Xuan and Mazingarbe, Ao Dai, 131.
“We work one”: Xuan and Mazingarbe, Ao Dai, 134.
“Why are you living” … “Phuong, why don’t you”: Xuan and Mazingarbe, Ao Dai, 142.
“I never could”: Xuan and Mazingarbe, Ao Dai, 148.
“You people have”: Xuan and Mazingarbe, Ao Dai, 163.
“No, I want to look” … “What have all”: Xuan and Mazingarbe, Ao Dai, 167.
“for the good”: Xuan and Mazingarbe, Ao Dai, 174.
“I had spent”: Xuan and Mazingarbe, Ao Dai, 237.
“From the air”: Geneviève de Galard, The Angel of Dien Bien Phu: The Sole French Woman at the Decisive Battle in Vietnam (Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2010), 39.
“I felt as if” … “The shelling lasted”: Galard, Angel, 56.
“care for and stay”: Galard, Angel, 57.
“performed miracles”: Galard, Angel, 61.
“What do you know?”: Galard, Angel, 76.
“when wounded, the toughest”: Galard, Angel, 62.
“Every time you walk”: Galard, Angel, 63.
“the soul and mind” … “that astonishing offer”: Galard, Angel, 78.
“Geneviève has earned”: Galard, Angel, 80.
“terrifying noise” … “The battle was now”: Galard, Angel, 82.
“I shared with” … “The fighting would cease”: Galard, Angel, 83.
“were all close to tears” … “strange silence”: Galard, Angel, 84.
“columns of French prisoners”: Galard, Angel, 85.
approximately 9,000: Martin Windrow, The Last Valley: Dien Bien Phu and the French Defeat in Vietnam (Cambridge, MA: Da Capo, 2006), 624.
300 miles away, the other 450: Windrow, Last Valley, 638.
3,900 of the original 9,000: Windrow, Last Valley, 647.
“Since you speak”: Galard, Angel, 86.
“Were you scared?”: Galard, Angel, 111.
“I haven’t earned this honor”: Galard, Angel, 119.
“have suffered so much”: Galard, Angel, 141.
Excerpts from Geneviève de Galard, The Angel of Dien Bien Phu: The Sole French Woman at the Decisive Battle in Vietnam (Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2010) used by permission of Naval Institute Press.
90 percent: Stanley Karnow, Vietnam: A History—the First Complete Account of Vietnam at War (New York: Viking, 1983), 227.
1,500 US military personnel: George G. Herring, America’s Longest War: The United States and Vietnam, 1950–1975 (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1996), 62.
“barbeques”: Herring, America’s Longest War, 106.
“French come”: Le Ly Hayslip with Jay Wurts, When Heaven and Earth Changed Places: A Vietnamese Woman’s Journey from War to Peace (New York: Doubleday, 1989), 3.
“even the friendly”: Hayslip, Heaven and Earth, 3.
“Freedom is never”: Hayslip, Heaven and Earth, 30.
“Do these things”: Hayslip, Heaven and Earth, 33.
“Your children need”: Hayslip, Heaven and Earth, 37.
“that traitor”: Hayslip, Heaven and Earth, 35.
“We are the soldiers”: Hayslip, Heaven and Earth, 37.
“whining and flapping” … “The may bay chuong-chuong”: Hayslip, Heaven and Earth, 43.
“After a while”: Hayslip, Heaven and Earth, 69.
“Where did you”: Hayslip, Heaven and Earth, 77.
“Didn’t we arrest”: Hayslip, Heaven and Earth, 80.
“Are you so smart”: Hayslip, Heaven and Earth, 201.
Excerpts from Le Ly Hayslip with Jay Wurts, When Heaven and Earth Changed Places: A Vietnamese Woman’s Journey from War to Peace (New York: Doubleday, 1989) copyright © 1989 by Le Ly Hayslip and Charles Jay Wurts. Used by permission of Doubleday, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC. All rights reserved.
“[The] waterways appeared”: Bobbi Hovis, Station Hospital Saigon: A Navy Nurse in Vietnam, 1963–1964 (Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1992), 14.
“anti-American feelings”: Hovis, Station Hospital, 15.
DUONG DUONG: Hovis, Station Hospital, 33.
“From the day”: Hovis, Station Hospital, 32.
“The demand for”: Hovis, Station Hospital, 40.
“At intersections”: Hovis, Station Hospital, 58.
“I have never”: Hovis, Station Hospital, 61.
“He proceeded to”: Hovis, Station Hospital, 64.
“The abnormal was”: Hovis, Station Hospital, 65.
“There’s all kinds”: “Coup in Saigon: A Nurse Remembers,” Navy Medicine 88, no. 6 (November–December 1977): 16.
“tree limbs snapping”: Hovis, Station Hospital, 78.
“uneasy” … “could explode”: Hovis, Station Hospital, 83.
“The hourly news”: Hovis, Station Hospital, 83.
“showered with flying”: Hovis, Station Hospital, 84.
“Ironically”: Hovis, Station Hospital, 84.
“the clank, clank, clank”: “Coup,” 20.
“were blackened” … “pounding headaches”: Hovis, Station Hospital, 86.
“had holes”: Hovis, Station Hospital, 86.
“assassination”: Hovis, Station Hospital, 91.
“the war effort”: Hovis, Station Hospital, 93.
“Two Americans a Day”: Hovis, Station Hospital, 112.
“I had never seen”: Hovis, Station Hospital, 114.
“twisted metal” … “cold chill”: Hovis, Station Hospital, 115–116.
“saturation point” … “were among”: Hovis, Station Hospital, 130.
“The care of”: Aries Matheos, “Around Annapolis: 1st Navy Nurse Corps Officer to Volunteer for Vietnam Honored by DAR,” Capital (MD) Gazette, October 31, 2014, www.capitalgazette.com/neighborhoods/ph-ac-cc-around-annapolis-1031-20141031-story.html.
Excerpts from Bobbi Hovis, Station Hospital Saigon: A Navy Nurse in Vietnam, 1963–1964 (Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1992) used by permission of Naval Institute Press.
exceeds 100 million: www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/COM.ART.HTM.
“there was no more”: Frank Kusch, Battleground Chicago: The Police and the 1968 Democratic National Convention (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2004), 43.
“an honorable end”: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HBON-ZIyUE.
“Kay, just a minute”: Kay Bauer, “Catherine (Kay) M. Bauer,” in Vietnam War Nurses: Personal Accounts of 18 Americans, ed. Patricia Rushton (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2013), 11.
“I think so” … “There’s a &%$+”: Bauer, “Catherine,” 11.
“I was so surprised”: Bauer, “Catherine,” 19.
“Wait a minute”: Bauer, “Catherine,” 19.
“Are you LCDR Bauer?”: Kay Bauer, e-mail correspondence with author, February 14, 2016.
“‘Wrong House’ idea”: Kay Bauer personal papers (article title and date unknown).
“We have just unveiled”: Diane Carlson Evans, Vietnam Women’s Memorial unveiling speech, November 11, 1993.
“overwhelmed by the number”: Kay Bauer, interview with author, December 2, 2016.
“The VAMC at that time”: Bauer interview, December 2, 2016.
“Everything we have done”: Jurate Kazickas, “These Hills Called Khe Sanh,” in War Torn: Stories of War from the Women Reporters Who Covered Vietnam, Tad Bartimus et al. (New York: Random House, 2002), 124.
“raging fires that”: Kazickas, “These Hills,” 123.
“crazy, terrifying”: Kazickas, “These Hills,” 126.
“Something was planted”: Kazickas, “These Hills,” 126.
“elephant”: Kazickas, “These Hills,” 128.
“Hardcore!”: Kazickas, “These Hills,” 130.
“Watching them kidding”: Kazickas, “These Hills,” 128.
“What’s a woman like you”: Kazickas, “These Hills,” 124.
“You mean you came” … “My country was taken”: Kazickas, “These Hills,” 125.
“journalistic fraternity” … “What the hell”: Kazickas, “These Hills,” 133.
“War, for all its”: Kazickas, “These Hills,” 135–136.
“Don’t worry, man” … “The moment was”: Kazickas, “These Hills,” 140.
“terrifying visions” … “Without the companionship”: Kazickas, “These Hills,” 142.
“American soldiers were”: Kazickas, “These Hills,” 136.
“What are they”: Kazickas, “These Hills,” 143.
“the unmistakable”: Kazickas, “These Hills,” 144.
“subliminal pull” … “I seemed inexorably”: Kazickas, “These Hills,” 149.
“Getting wounded”: Kazickas, “These Hills,” 150.
“passionate about” … “memories with a vengeance”: Kazickas, “These Hills,” 151.
“one frantic night” … “We thought you”: Kazickas, “These Hills,” 151–152.
Excerpts from Jurate Kazickas, “These Hills Called Khe Sanh,” in War Torn: Stories of War from the Women Reporters Who Covered Vietnam, Tad Bartimus et al. (New York: Random House, 2002) used by permission of International Creative Management, Inc.
“I walked off”: Iris Mary Roser, Ba Rose: My Years in Vietnam, 1968–1971 (Sydney: Pan Books, 1991), 9.
“Don’t you know” … “But unlike them”: Roser, Ba Rose, 12.
“Unfortunately, you have”: Roser, Ba Rose, 14.
“through the village”: Roser, Ba Rose, 23.
“Go! Go!”: Roser, Ba Rose, 24.
“Their gratitude for”: Roser, Ba Rose, 33.
“to appease their gods”: Roser, Ba Rose, 34.
“Hello, Mrs. Water Buffalo”: Roser, Ba Rose, 35.
“expecting a burst”: Roser, Ba Rose, 47.
“Charlie” … “a dark head”: Roser, Ba Rose, 62.
“Ong Krah, he is coming!”: Roser, Ba Rose, 64.
“I wondered”: Roser, Ba Rose, 65.
“How stupid can you”: Roser, Ba Rose, 66.
became “Ba [Mrs.] Rose”: Ba Rose, 94.
“Who are the recipients” … “a link in”: Roser, Ba Rose, 95.
“When we entered”: Roser, Ba Rose, 103.
“She was afraid”: Roser, Ba Rose, 104.
“In sum, here is”: Roser, Ba Rose, 287.
Extracts from Iris Mary Roser, Ba Rose: My Years in Vietnam, 1968–1971 (Sydney: Pan Books, 1991) reprinted by permission of Pan Macmillan Australia Pty Ltd. Copyright © Iris Mary Roser 1991.
eventually igniting a third World War: David F. Schmitz, Richard Nixon and the Vietnam War: The End of the American Century (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2014), 5.
accusations flowing as freely as the French wine: Richard Burks Verrone and Laura M. Calkins, Voices from Vietnam: Eye-Witness Accounts of the War, 1954–1975 (Exeter, UK: David & Charles, 2005), 269.
“the great silent majority” … “The defense of freedom”: “Silent Majority,” Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, www.nixonlibrary.gov/forkids/speechesforkids/silentmajority.php.
“for the purpose”: Schmitz, Nixon, 89.
“might be on”: “Richard M. Nixon: Address to the Nation About a New Initiative for Peace in Southeast Asia—October 7, 1970,” American Presidency Project, www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=2708.
“Ooh, blood!”: Anne Koch Voigt, e-mail correspondence with author, November 2, 2015.
“It was quite a shock!”: Voigt e-mail, November 14, 2015.
“I knew in my heart”: Voigt e-mail, November 14, 2015.
“I don’t know why” … “the fastest”: Voigt e-mail, November 14, 2015.
“A Poem for Anne Koch”: Anne Koch Voigt papers.
“We would smile”: Voigt e-mail, November 14, 2015.
“Cowboys and Indians” … “can happen in”: Voigt e-mail, November 14, 2015.
“I never forgot the care”: Anne Koch Voigt papers.
“There was nothing different”: Voigt e-mail, November 14, 2015.
“just-in-case blood”: Voigt e-mail, November 14, 2015.
“wide-eyed” … “I knew they were”: Voigt e-mail, November 14, 2015.
“Soon he became” … “shocked and upset”: Voigt e-mail, November 14, 2015.
“short-time calendar” … “I had the wrong”: Voigt e-mail, November 18, 2015.
“Class As” … “I haven’t done anything”: Voigt e-mail, November 18, 2015.
“You always knew”: Voigt e-mail, November 18, 2015.
“It may not have”: Voigt e-mail, November 18, 2015.
“This year greater”: Dang Thuy Tram, Last Night I Dreamed of Peace: The Diary of Dang Thuy Tram, trans. Andrew X. Pham (New York: Harmony Books, 2007), 79–80.
“Our responsibility is”: Dang, Last Night, 22.
“My clearest feeling”: Dang, Last Night, 55.
“I have a physician’s”: Dang, Last Night, 20.
“Greetings, Doctor!”: Dang, Last Night, 82.
“Oh, Bon” … “Hatred for”: Dang, Last Night, 83.
WAITING FOR YOU … “crimes committed”: Dang, Last Night, 99–100.
“free-fire zones”: Dang, Last Night, 103n97.
“It’s not yet 8:30” … “between ragged breaths”: Dang, Last Night, 112–113.
“the roar of planes”: Dang, Last Night, 119.
“the intensity of” … “a maelstrom”: Dang, Last Night, 120–121.
“Where each bomb” … “From a position”: Dang, Last Night, 135.
“eerily empty” … “If the enemy comes”: Dang, Last Night, 140–141.
“Perhaps I will meet”: Dang, Last Night, 146.
“soaking wet and shivering”: Dang, Last Night, 160.
“Death is close”: Dang, Last Night, 172.
“Trees downed in every”: Dang, Last Night, 215.
“Don’t burn this one”: Dang, Last Night, xvi.
“What agony!”: Dang, Last Night, 41.
“struggle for national salvation”: Charles E. Neu, ed., After Vietnam: Legacies of a Lost War (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000), 89.
1.5 million … 60,000: Karen Gottschang Turner with Phan Thanh Hao, Even the Women Must Fight (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1998), 20.
Excerpts from Dang Thuy Tram, Last Night I Dreamed of Peace: The Diary of Dang Thuy Tram, trans. Andrew X. Pham (New York: Harmony Books, 2007), translation copyright © 2007 by Andrew X. Pham, used by permission of Harmony Books, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC. All rights reserved.
“Those guys” … “I think you’re both”: Lynda Van Devanter with Christopher Morgan, Home Before Morning: The Story of an Army Nurse in Vietnam (New York: Beaufort Books, 1983), 49.
“Essentially, we were deciding”: Van Devanter, Home, 68.
“jerking wildly”: Van Devanter, Home, 76.
“Men, we just came” … “But if there”: Van Devanter, Home, 77.
“Coiled barbed wire” … “supposedly unending”: Van Devanter, Home, 78.
“There were only fifteen”: Van Devanter, Home, 82.
“A blur of wounded” … “slow period”: Van Devanter, Home, 85.
“the war was”: Van Devanter, Home, 87.
“Attention all personnel”: Van Devanter, Home, 90.
“How do you know”: Van Devanter, Home, 91.
“The moans and screams”: Van Devanter, Home, 96.
“You’re a good help”: Van Devanter, Home, 104.
“trying to sound” … “Nobody does”: Van Devanter, Home, 105.
“At 4:16 a.m.”: Van Devanter, Home, 113.
“Let the old glory mongers”: Van Devanter, Home, 131.
“as a warning”: Van Devanter, Home, 132.
“in Vietnam to save”: Van Devanter, Home, 134.
“It would be a lot easier”: Van Devanter, Home, 139.
“Holding the hand” … “If you can’t feel”: Van Devanter, Home, 144.
“They were all with me”: Van Devanter, Home, 173.
“freedom flight” … “As the jet”: Van Devanter, Home, 207.
“We’re going past the airport” … “that naïve”: Van Devanter, Home, 211.
“less gruesome” … “I had learned”: Van Devanter, Home, 221.
“Lynda’s book”: “Vietnam Veterans of America Mourns the Loss of Lynda Van Devanter,” Leatherneck.com, www.leatherneck.com/forums/showthread.php?2495-Vietnam-Veterans-Of-America-Mourns-The-Loss-Of-Lynda-Van-Devanter&s=e0131ddd162ce635538f29d7c0e9b3be.
Excerpts from Lynda Van Devanter with Christopher Morgan, Home Before Morning: The Story of an Army Nurse in Vietnam (New York: Beaufort Books, 1983) used by permission of the Buckley family.
“morally wrong”: Christian G. Appy, Patriots: The Vietnam War Remembered from All Sides (New York: Penguin Books, 2004), 393.
“search-and-avoid”: Brian Flora, Vietnam veteran, interview with author, January 6, 2017.
“Why did you let us win?”: Tom Bissell, The Father of All Things: A Marine, His Son, and the Legacy of Vietnam (New York: Pantheon, 2007), 91.
“repeatedly and in massive”: “Gerald R. Ford: The President’s News Conference—April 3, 1975,” American Presidency Project, www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=4812.
“Yes, we defeated”: Stanley Karnow, Vietnam: A History—the First Complete Account of Vietnam at War (New York: Viking, 1983), 9.
“I didn’t want to be measured”: Chad Stewart, “Former POW, Ambassador, Shares His Unique Perspective on Vietnam,” On Patrol, summer 2014, http://usoonpatrol.org/archives/2014/08/13/former-pow-ambassador-shares-h.
“It was simply”: Kate Webb, “Highpockets,” in War Torn: Stories of War from the Women Reporters Who Covered Vietnam, Tad Bartimus et al. (New York: Random House, 2002), 61.
“seriously hungry”: Webb, “Highpockets,” 62.
“function and write”: Webb, “Highpockets,” 64.
“political clamor”: Webb, “Highpockets,” 70.
“dragging war” … “the tiny phosphorous”: Webb, “Highpockets,” 69.
“engulfed in chaos”: Webb, “Highpockets,” 71.
“No”: Webb, “Highpockets,” 72.
“fire burst from all sides”: Kate Webb, On the Other Side: 23 Days with the Viet Cong (New York: Quadrangle Books, 1972), 9.
“April 8”: Webb, Other Side, 13.
“Nha bao” … “Nuoc”: Webb, “Highpockets,” 73–74.
“That the others”: Webb, “Highpockets,” 74.
“I tasted it” … “compulsive documenting”: Webb, “Highpockets,” 74.
“slipped like shadows”: Webb, “Highpockets,” 76.
“As our numbers”: Webb, “Highpockets,” 75.
“Do not be afraid”: Webb, Other Side, 47.
“Why were you down” … “Now I wish”: Webb, “Highpockets,” 76.
“Why were you with” … “too long”: Webb, Other Side, 49.
“An odd thing happened”: Webb, “Highpockets,” 75–76.
“the gray limbo” … “Hope, we had learned”: Webb, “Highpockets,” 78.
“liberated”: Webb, “Highpockets,” 79.
“Mad Hatter’s tea party” … “humane treatment”: Webb, Other Side, 141–142.
“stood alone in the dark”: Webb, “Highpockets,” 79.
“Kassat, kassat”: Webb, Other Side, 152.
“Miss Webb”: Webb, Other Side, 153.
“bizarre mixture”: Webb, “Highpockets,” 79.
“a field reporter” … “what was happening”: Webb, “Highpockets,” 84–85.
“There were suicides”: Webb, “Highpockets,” 85.
“fearless action reporter”: Douglas Martin, “Kate Webb, War Correspondent, Dies at 64,” New York Times, May 15, 2007.
Excerpts from Kate Webb, “Highpockets,” in War Torn: Stories of War from the Women Reporters Who Covered Vietnam, Tad Bartimus et al. (New York: Random House, 2002) used by permission of International Creative Management, Inc.
“quit meddling around”: Joan Baez, And a Voice to Sing With: A Memoir (New York: Summit Books, 1987), 117.
“a quiet revelation” … “disaster”: Baez, And a Voice, 119.
“Well, I imagine”: Baez, And a Voice, 121.
“filled with young men”: Baez, And a Voice, 123.
“Do not kill” … “Yes, it’s right”: Joan Baez, Daybreak (New York: Dial, 1966), 87.
“I will not bring myself”: Baez, Daybreak, 85.
“alert”: Baez, And a Voice, 201.
“look at Nixon’s peace”: Baez, And a Voice, 208.
“terrible” … “end real soon”: Baez, And a Voice, 212.
“What I mean is”: Baez, And a Voice, 213.
“My son, my son”: Baez, And a Voice, 218.
“Instead of bringing hope”: Joan Baez, “Open Letter to the Socialist Republic of Vietnam,” New York Times, May 30, 1979, A14.
JOAN BAEZ GAVE COMFORT … “You know”: “Waydownsouth,” “Joan Baez Diffuses Right Wing Protest at Idaho Concert,” Daily Kos, August 12, 2009, www.dailykos.com/story/2009/08/12/765667/-Joan-Baez-diffuses-right-wing-protest-at-Idaho-concert.
“When do I leave” … “If anything happened”: Tracy Wood, “Spies, Lovers, and Prisoners of War,” in War Torn: Stories of War from the Women Reporters Who Covered Vietnam, ed. Tad Bartimus et al. (Random House, 2002), 224.
“Landry had just”: Wood, “Spies,” 225.
“You’re too feminine” … “Don’t become like”: Wood, “Spies,” 228.
“I couldn’t let this happen”: Wood, “Spies,” 228.
“You don’t want anything” … “Cowboys”: Wood, “Spies,” 229.
“Well, we can’t tell Arthur”: Wood, “Spies,” 230.
“We’re only reporters”: Wood, “Spies,” 227.
“Bribery was so commonplace”: Tracy Wood, “A War Correspondent Turned Lifelong Corruption Fighter,” Voice of Orange County, April 29, 2015, http://voiceofoc.org/2015/04/a-war-correspondent-turned-lifelong-corruption-fighter/.
“I lost all sensation”: Wood, “Spies,” 232.
“a massive hammering” … “His left hand”: Wood, “Spies,” 234.
“A cease-fire, internationally”: “Richard M. Nixon: Address to the Nation Announcing Conclusion of an Agreement on Ending the War and Restoring Peace in Vietnam—January 23, 1973,” American Presidency Project, www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=3808.
“something in their posture”: Wood, “Spies,” 244.
“nagged by” … “They had no identity”: Wood, “Spies,” 245.
“Is that really Walter Cronkite” … “the Most Trusted”: Wood, “Spies,” 246.
Excerpts from Tracy Wood, “Spies, Lovers, and Prisoners of War,” in War Torn: Stories of War from the Women Reporters Who Covered Vietnam, Tad Bartimus et al. (Random House, 2002) used by permission of International Creative Management, Inc.
“You are Kim Phuc?”: Denise Chong, The Girl in the Picture: The Story of Kim Phuc, the Photograph, and the Vietnam War (New York: Penguin Books, 2001), 190.
“big attack”: Chong, Girl, 53.
“Everybody get out!” … “Run!”: Chong, Girl, 60.
“even more off target”: Chong, Girl, 61.
“as if a door had opened”: Chong, Girl, 63.
“People have been”: Chong, Girl, 64.
“Nong qua, nong qua!”: Chong, Girl, 68.
“Oh, she die”: Chong, Girl, 80.
“The entire world”: Chong, Girl, 80.
“the little girl in the picture”: Chong, Girl, 106.
“Kim Phuc is a good story”: Chong, Girl, 108–109.
“called for silence” … “We lost, we lost”: Chong, Girl, 137.
“But, you look very”: Chong, Girl, 190.
“boss” … “He met you”: Chong, Girl, 197.
“You are ‘hot’ news”: Chong, Girl, 203.
“You cannot go to Ho Chi Minh City”: Chong, Girl, 205.
“They have destroyed”: Chong, Girl, 212–213.
“We’ve run her picture”: Chong, Girl, 228.