Al Doyle: Rice farmers by day, guerillas by night
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When North Vietnam and South Vietnam split, the North was communist, the South was free. Communist North Vietnam sent operatives into South Vietnam to train a 50,000 man Guerilla army. These were Guerillas by night and rice farmers, workers, store owners by day time. The North Vietnamese did it through coercion - you did it or else. I'll tell you about one incident that I remember very well when I was over there in 1963. I saw a man's head on a pole when we were on a sand paddle down a canal. I asked the interpreter what it was and he explained that if the communists go into a village and ask the village chief, "I want all your young men to train so we can overthrow the Vietnamese government". If the chief doesn't agree, they'll cut his head off and put it on a pole to warn the other villagers, "You either do this or this will happen to you". The communists did this to entire families in the village. If a father didn't agree to give up his son or sons, the communists would behead the whole family.