and reichert disappeared. the remains were removed and things went back to normal. >> any publicity on this at the time? how did you remember this? >> virtually none. one of the things i did for the book was to go back and check stars and stripes. stars and stripes is a newspaper that's been published for deployed forces every since world war ii. and it was during the vietnam war, there was a european edition of stars and stripes in people in europe and germany. and so i went to check the pacific edition of stars & stripes to find out how this shocking event was reported. and the answer was it was barely reported. there was one short article mentioning this attack, providing minimal detail other than i found very interesting making a brief reference to other attacks. by enlisted soldiers on officers that had been lillesed recently in vietnam. it was not that the attack on captain reichert was a one-off event. rather it was indicative of the deterioration of order and discipline that afflicted the army in vietn