Firsthand Accounts

Jean Ponder Allen: "I started screaming at the officers..." Mike Arias: "...we had just walked into an ambush..." Jane Brotman: "...they were beating people up..." Jack Cipperly: "...there was a lot of yelling and screaming..." Joe Costello: "We were all scared, very scared..." Keith Hackett: "It was literally a fight for your life." Jim Rowen: "...we were trapped..." Paul Soglin: "This was not a time to negotiate." Clark Welch: "I told my guys...'This is it.'" Choose a person interviewed in the film.

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Diane Sikorski Kramer
soldier's sister

Diane and Danny Sikorski grew up in the Polish working-class South Side of Milwaukee. Their father worked on the Miller Brewing Company assembly line. Danny played football at Boy's Technical High School and found work at a local tool plant after graduation. He enlisted in the Army upon receiving his draft notice and was soon sent to Vietnam. He wrote his younger sister often. Weeks after learning of Danny's death in combat, Diane received her last letter to him, stamped "Return to Sender/Verified Deceased".