U.s. Cleporal Sick of Killing "women and Kids"

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An Associated Press dispatch of September 30th from Wichita, Kansas, quoted the following from a letter by Corporal Ronnie W. Wilson, who is in Vietnam, to his mother: "There are so many Cong here that in three days we captured le VC and killed 33. Man, I had to kill a woman and a baby. We were sweep-= ing the jungle and all of a sudden the Cong opened up on us. People were falling and Cong were clipping 81 mortars on us. The lieutenant had us move out toward the firing. We killed eight Cong and about 30 got away. Anyway we were searching the dead Cong when a wife of the one I was checking ran out a cave and picked up a sub-machine gun and started firing at us, I shot her and my rifle is automatic, so before I knew it I had shot about six rounds. Four of them hit her and the others went in the cave and must have bounced off the rock wall and hit the baby. Mom, for the first time I felt really sick to my stomach. The baby was about two months old...I swear to God this place is worse than hell. Why must I kill women and kids? Who knows who's right? They think they are and we think we aresesee"