side. move out, move out! alpha company has reached hill 943. [ gunshots ] coming this way. up! after sweeping the area around 943, hill 943 is taken. there is nothing to take. and now that the enemy is gone, there is no reason for the americans to stay. when we abandoned the hill, it was crushing to morale because your friends died. what was all that about? there is a hill in vietnam, which was assaulted twice, taken twice, and abandoned twice by americans. and today, 943 is again controlled by the north vietnamese. progress was not being made. there was no end in sight. how would you measure progress? so it was a kind of absurd situation.