But the real question is what we are going to do about It. The basic issue and the basic question are an indication to the American people of the cost of the tragic war in terms of the Vietnamese. Let me give an example that we saw in our visit to some of the refugee camps. There is an extraordinary refugee camp in I Corps. I believe. into which the military moved thousands of Montagnard tribesmen from their villages 3 weeks before harvest time. They put the camp in a low. hilly area of red clay in which the Montagnards were unable to grow anything. For some reason or another. the food supplies were slow in coming to the refugees. and thousands of them went back and started harvesting. That was a freefire zone. and thousands of the refugees. because they went back into the areas of their fields. were wounded or killed as a direct result of H. & I. fire. That is a tragic situationthat because of poor management and the lack of supplies they felt compelled to go back. These are the kinds of things which are regrettable. and which the American people should know something about.
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