PREVIEW: The Deadly Rice Fields of Vietnam

Warriors In Their Own Words | First Person War Stories

Robert Kirk

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4.6 • 675 Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2023

⏱️ 9 minutes

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In this preview, SP5 Clarence Sasser relives the traumatic mission for which he was later awarded the Medal of Honor. Check back tomorrow to hear our full interview with Sasser. Specialist 5th Class Clarence Eugene Sasser served in Vietnam as an Army Medic. In spite of numerous wounds and excruciating pain, he continuously administered aid to fellow soldiers for 20 hours as his company was attacked in Vietnam. Sasser later said this about spending the night under fire: “The tough part wasn’t enemy fire, it was listening to guys call for their mama, and you can't do anything. Listening to them beg all night. And then you don’t hear them anymore in the morning, so you know they died.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:52.0	I'm Ken Harbaugh, host of Warriors in their own words.
0:55.5	In this preview, we'll be sharing a clip from tomorrow's interview with Specialist Fifth Class Clarence Sasser.
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1:09.1	We went in to an area on helicopter slicks, we call them.
1:15.2	Bring back a little memory.
1:16.8	Some of good, some of them bad.
1:19.2	But we went into this area on helicopters that the entire company did.
1:25.9	And it turned out to be a fairly hot area, which was, I really hate to say, sort of common
1:34.4	back then that you went in the areas and you found more than you expected.
1:42.2	But it was sort of interesting because we were not scheduled for any action. We were a
1:49.9	backup company on that mission. And we were just to take it easy until, or if and when,
2:03.1	another company or someone got into trouble
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