Comments on: Capturing the Embassy Sapper http://www.historynet.com/capturing-the-embassy-sapper.htm From the World's Largest History Magazine Publisher Sun, 19 May 2013 11:23:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Mike Virgintino http://www.historynet.com/capturing-the-embassy-sapper.htm#comment-840600 Mike Virgintino Tue, 22 Jan 2013 15:12:26 +0000 http://www.historynet.com/?p=13684608#comment-840600 Thank you, Don, for this article and for remembering Marcello Lofaro. I met Marcy only briefly for about six weeks one summer. Back in 1962, I was five years old. I knew him only as “Mr. Marcy,” as we were instructed to call him as one of our counselors at our parish summer day camp in The Bronx. Every time I hear about Vietnam, I think of him. Around 1968, we were asked to pray at Mass for him for several months. He was MIA. Then, we heard that they recovered his body. I recalled that he had been a military photographer. I didn't know much more than his first name - and I knew him as \Marcy\ and not \Marcello\ - and the little bit I already mentioned. I posted an inquiry on our grammar school Facebook page earlier this month, and several guys closer in age to him provided me with information and photos. One of them included a link to your article. Though I knew Mr. Marcy so briefly, he touched me forever. I am glad for the opportunity to read your story and to learn a bit more about him. Best wishes to you. Thank you, Don, for this article and for remembering Marcello Lofaro. I met Marcy only briefly for about six weeks one summer. Back in 1962, I was five years old. I knew him only as “Mr. Marcy,” as we were instructed to call him as one of our counselors at our parish summer day camp in The Bronx.

Every time I hear about Vietnam, I think of him. Around 1968, we were asked to pray at Mass for him for several months. He was MIA. Then, we heard that they recovered his body. I recalled that he had been a military photographer.

I didn't know much more than his first name – and I knew him as \Marcy\ and not \Marcello\ – and the little bit I already mentioned. I posted an inquiry on our grammar school Facebook page earlier this month, and several guys closer in age to him provided me with information and photos. One of them included a link to your article.

Though I knew Mr. Marcy so briefly, he touched me forever. I am glad for the opportunity to read your story and to learn a bit more about him.

Best wishes to you.

]]> By: mike Dedrick http://www.historynet.com/capturing-the-embassy-sapper.htm#comment-824923 mike Dedrick Tue, 20 Nov 2012 20:25:02 +0000 http://www.historynet.com/?p=13684608#comment-824923 I was an army interrogator-linguist 96C2L80 in Vietnam during Tet 1968. I did a lot of interrogations on VC/NVA pos and chieu-hois. One of the most memorable was the captured VC sapper in the picture. Many of the interviews were just that-short question sessions toget basic information. The officer who assigned this pow to me did not bother to tell me who he was (he knew-it was a pretty big deal at the time), and I handed in a very short report that did notspecify the American Embassy. When the officer jacked me up[ about this I asked why didn't he bother telling me. I had to bo back and look up the Vietnamese word for "embassy". and redo a longer report. I spoke Vietnamese, but embassy was not a word I commonly used. I remember it still: dai su My. Mike Dedrick I was an army interrogator-linguist 96C2L80 in Vietnam during Tet 1968. I did a lot of interrogations on VC/NVA pos and chieu-hois. One of the most memorable was the captured VC sapper in the picture. Many of the interviews were just that-short question sessions toget basic information. The officer who assigned this pow to me did not bother to tell me who he was (he knew-it was a pretty big deal at the time), and I handed in a very short report that did notspecify the American Embassy. When the officer jacked me up[ about this I asked why didn't he bother telling me. I had to bo back and look up the Vietnamese word for "embassy". and redo a longer report. I spoke Vietnamese, but embassy was not a word I commonly used. I remember it still: dai su My.
Mike Dedrick

]]> By: D. Deuke http://www.historynet.com/capturing-the-embassy-sapper.htm#comment-814801 D. Deuke Sat, 04 Aug 2012 17:38:39 +0000 http://www.historynet.com/?p=13684608#comment-814801 It strikes me how young we were; how innocent, even naive, until the moment that someone we love is killed by the realities of war. I hated that place; I hated those moments, but I understand the compulsion of trying to get that perfect picture or that heart rending story - and yet it never matches those moments that exclaim how short life's moments can be. It strikes me how young we were; how innocent, even naive, until the moment that someone we love is killed by the realities of war. I hated that place; I hated those moments, but I understand the compulsion of trying to get that perfect picture or that heart rending story – and yet it never matches those moments that exclaim how short life's moments can be.

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