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embassy during the tet offensive we opened the teletype in the time bureau to any journalist who needed it. the great charlie moore came by. he worked, as you know, for the new york times. he was full of excitement. he said wally, can you believe it? can you believe what the general did? like any journalist who doesn t like being beaten to the news, i pretended to know what the general had done. after charlie left i quickly read his copy, that the general had executed a suspected vietcong right in front of eddie adams camera and the rest of the press assembled before the pagoda. we had a fellow in the bureau by the name of nguyen nguyen. he was our vietnamese military expert. i turned to him because i had sent him over to pagoda just in case something happened. i said, nguyen, why didn t you tell me what the general had done? he said, mr. terry, that was not news. the general does that all the time. i looked aghast, and our other vietnamese reporter this was our po ....
various heads of south vees mees intelligence and military commands, years later when sigh gong fell, ten years in the employment of time magazine revealed himself to be a colonel in the vietcong army. that shows how smart we journalists are. one more footnote to that day s coverage of the tet offensive. john cantwell joined in the early reports to say the enemy had gotten inside the embassy. if true, it would have been a major embarrassment to the united states. when american officials denied it later in the day, we in the press had to back down. we were accused for years to come of irresponsible reporting in that episode. but i eventually learned from veterans of a secret commando team who had been there that the embassy had indeed been invaded. john and all of the rest of us were right. john never lived to know it. it was killed in the may of fen sive along with two fellow aussies. i loved john just like a brother, too. over the years all we ve heard is how we lost ....