In 1963, Gene Stoltzfus went to Vietnam as a Conscientious
Objector with IVS (International Voluntary Services.) Six months later, when Gene
unintentionally wandered into a
Special Forces camp, he was welcomed as a fellow American. He asked two men who had come in
from patrol where they had been. When
they would not tell him, except to brag that they had made several kills, he
found himself wondering, “If I speak some Vietnamese but can’t tell who are the
VC (Vietcong), how can these men, who speak no Vietnamese, tell?”