“One guy had three of his fingers cut off. Things like that,” recalled Don Luce, who brought attention to a secret 'tiger cage' prison run by South Vietnam, stirring outrage that helped turn U.S. public opinion against the war.
“One guy had three of his fingers cut off. Things like that,” recalled Mr. Luce, who came to Vietnam in the late 1950s with a U.S.-based volunteer group.
“I remember clearly the terrible stench from diarrhea and the open sores where shackles cut into the prisoners’ ankles,” wrote Mr. Luce, who died Nov. 17 at a hospital in Niagara Falls, N.Y., at 88. “‘Donnez-moi de l’eau’ , they begged.” “We are finding it increasingly difficult to quietly pursue our main objective: helping the people of Vietnam,” said an open letter to President, signed by nearly 50 people including Mr. Luce. “The war as it is presently being waged is self-defeating in approach.”
.” They contended that U.S. tactics, such as destroying villages and farmland, and a lack of knowledge of Vietnamese culture helped swell the ranks of anti-U. S. guerrillas.“We were trying to find a way to give the Vietnamese a voice in the debate,” Mr. Luce said.
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