Article March 25, 2002 ISSUE

Through a spiritual lens—

FRIEND OR FOE?

Gordon N. Converse

A bush pilot was willing to fly the reporter and me north and drop us for a few days in the center of a small Vietnamese town—a town, we were told, that had been completely surrounded by Viet Cong guerrillas, but had never been disturbed.

Our stay was strange indeed. We never knew who could be the enemy. Fighting was taking place in a number of areas around us, but in the town itself all seemed peaceful.

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