As I watched the Continental Airlines flight touch down, I knewNguyen Cong Hiep was aboard and suddenly I was no longer at JohnWayne airport in Orange County; I was back in Laos in 1968,surrounded by the North Vietnamese Army.
On Oct. 7, 1968, our six-man Special Forces reconnaissance teampaused on a hilltop in the Laotian jungle, looking for an AmericanPOW camp. As I opened a can of apricots, Hiep and Nguyen Van Sauopened fire on more than a dozen NVA soldiers climbing the hill tokill us. My back was to the NVA as Hiep, Sau and the remainingthree men on Spike Team Idaho cut loose with a deafening blast offull automatic gunfire.
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