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A prisoner captured during the attack told officials he had been in Vietnam only four days. He said the units came down the Ho Chi Minh trail in Loas, crossed the border and made a three-day forced march, attacking Duc Duc (Refugee Village) without taking a rest.

 

WHAT  MADE  THIS  ATTACK  ON  A  PEASANT-FARMING  VILLAGE  SO  TIMELY...

At the time, the American News Media were extremely bias against the American military.   (John Kerry was their favorite military officer and he was going around condemning his fellow Vietnam Veterans.  The American News Media loved him!!)

And a major American court case was about to come to a close.

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"The General"
Duc Duc, Vietnam  July 1970
 
 
 
Eyewritness to the attack:   Major Franklin TRAPNELL - says heard news of Calley conviction at same time enemy killing civilians at Duc Duc; says this another My Lai perpetuated by enemy this time, with more killed for far less reason; hopes will have some impact on public.
 
 
The Duc Duc Massacre was compared to the My Lai Massace.  But why is the Duc Duc Massacre so largely forgotten?   
 
The  MY  LAI  Massacre has been mentioned on television evening news over 600 times.  The Duc Duc Massacre has been mentioned six (6) times.   What made one Vietnam War massacre, so newsworthy and the other  not so newsworthy... ? 
 
 
CBC Evening News for Wednesday, Mar 31, 1971  -  REPORTER:   Walter Cronkite
Saigon announces North Vietnam attacked Duc Duc, South Vietnam, last Sunday; killed 200 civilians.
 
 
 
NBC Evening News for Wednesday, Mar 31, 1971  -  REPORTER:  Frank Mcgee 
North Vietnam attacks Duc Duc, South Vietnam, killing or wounding over 200.
 
 
 
ABC Evening News for Wednesday, Mar 31, 1971  -  REPORTER:    Harry Reasoner 
North Vietnam forces attack Duc Duc, South Vietnam, killing 100 civilians.
 
 

CBS Evening News for Friday, Apr 02, 1971  Headline: South Vietnam / Duc Duc

(Duc Duc, South Vietnam) Film shows destroyed village, civilians digging through rubble; 107 known dead, 135 evacuated for treatment; villagers feel South Vietnam didn't help enough to prevent North Vietnam attack.
 
[ Eyewritness to the attack:  Major Franklin TRAPNELL - says heard news of Calley conviction at same time enemy killing civilians at Duc Duc; says this another My Lai perpetuated by enemy this time, with more killed for far less reason; hopes will have some impact on public.] US providing supplies to rebuild village.
REPORTER:  Jeff Williams
 
 

This is what happened to my village, seven months after I left the refugee village, due to President Nixon's troop pullout from Vietnam.

MARCH  1971

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THE  MASSACRE  OF  THE  DUC  DUC  REFUGEE  VILLAGE  TOOK  PLACE  SEVEN  MONTHS  AFTER  THE  LAST  AMERICAN  MARINES  WERE  PULLED  OUT  FROM  IT.

The village was punished for helping the American Marines that served in the area.   I know this first hand, since I lived (24/7) in the Duc Duc village for five (5) months as part of a Marine Corps CAP Team.

After the last American CAP Team left the Duc Duc Refugee Village, the village had no military value.

'BEFORE' MASSACRE: Pictures And Narratives of Duc Duc / Phu Da, Vietnam
 

You can read about the village's massacre at:    http://home.earthlink.net/~duc_duc_massacre

http://www.capveterans.com/the_duc_duc_resettlement_village/index.html

 

I found the following report from the 7th Marines Command Chronology dated March 4, 1968. Although the grid coordinates are incorrect the village names are the same as those where you served with CAP 2-9-2 (aka NOV 3).  It seems like the massacre in 1971 was not the first time the villagers had been brutalized.

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                     (d)      040500H:  Company I searched the area of (AT869571) and found 40 civilians KIA, 77  WIA, and 14 WIA  (at this point there are several letters I can't read ...Sandy) 
The villages of  DUC DUC, PHU DA, and AN HOA had been mortared, and the enemy had moved through the area burning huts and throwing grenades at the civilians in their bomb shelters. The enemy told civilians that the reason for the raid was to force the people to return across the river to the Arizona area and grow rice. 
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UPDATE:    We saved the Marine Corps Rememberance Memorial in Pearl Harbor From The National Park Service.  More details will soon be released.
 
 

 
What is the federal crime to intentional lie to the F.B.I. and present fraudulent evidence.
"You typed it yourself..."
 
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Jon Corzine wrote the above in a letter, while he was still a United States Senator. 
 
Disabled Marine CAP veteran John "Jack" Cunningham has been writing to Governor Jon Corzine for two years now.  Although a number of these letters were certified regular mail, Governor Jon Corzine's staff refuses to respond to the former Marine.
 
Please help CAP Marine Vet Jack Cunningham get a response to his letters from Governor Jon Corzine.
 
Please write and/or call and ask Governor Corzine's staff to please respond to Jack Cunningham's letters concerning the "Maynard & Truland Attorney Ethics Cover-Up."

 
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F.B.I.  To  Investigate  Disabled  PTSD  Vet's  (Seven Years)  Of  Corruption  And  Civil  Rights  Violation  Charges
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So far, our non-profit webpages have already had over 5,325,000 hits for 2007.
 
 
Webmaster & Disabled PTSD Vet Jack Cunningham Battles A Corrupt Law Firm And The Powerful State Officials,
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   PLEASE  READ  SOME  OF  FORMER  U.S.  MARINE AND  WEBMASTER'S  JACK  CUNNINGHAM'S  DAY-TO-DAY  EXPERIENCES  OF  LIVING  AND  SERVING  (24/7)  IN  A  VIETNAMESE  PEASANT  VILLAGE  AT:   http://www.capveterans.com/jack_cunningham
 
 
 
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Semper Fidelis,  John     jrbatesusmc@aol.com
 
Colonel John R. Bates USMC (ret)    
7 Arizona Memorial Way
Honolulu, Hawaii 96818

 
Thank you to the over eleven-thousand (11,000) visitors we had in our first, six (6) days on the internet. 
As per Colonel John Bates' above email, the message got out to the National Park Service (NPS).
Thanks again,
Jack Cunningham
 
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Of the 88 Marines assigned to the battleship, only 15 Marines survived.
 
 
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