(PFC) Gary Hammett recollection:(I)Company "Corporal Thomas was hit, but he wouldn't go back because he said he wasn't hit so bad that he couldn't stay to help. So he stayed. Our platoon moved on a couple of hours. After a while there wasn't really too much action; it had kind of simmered down. Before we stopped for chow, Captain Webb and them were coming up from behind. There were about six of them in the Captain's little group there. This one staff sergeant was shooting these dead VC in the head. The captain told him to stop doing it because it was inhumane. Well, right after that, three or four minutes later, this VC, who was supposed to have been dead and wasn't, had a grenade and when he rolled over, the pin was already pulled." Otto Lehrack, No Shining Armor: The Marines At War In Vietnam: an Oral History, University of Kansas Press, Lawrence, Kansas, 1992