Marines in combat in the northerly part of South Vietnam. The Marine colonel said: The people around here all hate us and you can hardly blame them. We burn down their huts. run our halftracks over their rice fields to destroy their crops. then send them to refugee camps in some other part of their country. There was also recently published in our newspapers a picture of a marine in combat directly south of the demilitarized zone separating North and South Vietnam. He was tying a blindfold over the eyes of a Vietnamese boy of 10 years of age who had just been captured by our Marines.