European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 28, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse Poge 18 the stars and stripes monday August 28, 1978 new York he could feel his feet sink ing into the hot Orange Sand. He was Barefoot and he was walking along the tile floor of the hallway and he knew exactly where he was in the prison Ward of a psychiatric Hospital i Brooklyn. But a part of Louis Kahan still kept telling him that he was on one of the beaches South of Danang in Vietnam. It always is this Way Fork Han who stands for All the weird damage that Vietnam has done to this went into a Small office and sat at a desk with an unlit cigarette Between Finger covered with nicotine. Guards stood Iii the doorway. Got a Light please Kahan m not allowed to Nave Kahan who is 31, was in a White Bathrobe and Blue pyjamas. On his right Arm the Mas Sive Arm of a 250-Pounder, was a Large Tatoo Ofa bulldog with a Collar on it Reading Kahan was in the marines in Vietnam in1967, taking part in search end destroy mis Sions in the area South of the end of his tour he was quarrelling with officers who kept ordering that civilian should be treated with respect unless proven to be Viet Cong. So Many of Kahan s outfit had been hit by people who appeared to be civil ians that he resented the orders he was being. Given. He wanted to kill and torture he was discharged from the marines s was disoriented and unable to hold a Job. Shad approximately so jobs and then be he a Recluse. I with his Mother a department store Emee Kahan moved into a Garden apart t Complex in the Queens area of new York. The apartments were so run Down that f a few families remained i the summer of 1975, a series of moving .1 pulled into the neighbourhood. With thes vans came vietnamese refugees who had fled i and were flown to a new life in the states which consisted of walking torn up streets while Louis Kahanu looked out the window at them and thought he is in Vietnam a couple of vietnamese families even moved into the same shabby building where Kahan sat brooding through the Long Days. They had travelled 11,000 Miles to look for safety that was not there for one Day last year one of the vietnamese a 11-year-old girl be my Hanh went to the a in the hallway of Kahan s apartment and Kahan grabbed her and pulled her lira to an empty apartment. He told Hert she was a Viet Cong and he wanted her to a press. The girl frightened could not an Kahan then psychiatrists agree completely slipped Back in time. He was in Vietnam and civilians were hitting us outfit and he was hitting Back at the civilians. He killed the girl. Kahan turned himself in to police. Court psychiatrists who examined Kahan before the trial found that Louis would sweat and trem ble each time he told the Story of killing the girl he thought was a Viet Cong. The psychiatrists All agreed that Kahan was telling the truth and that on the Day of the murder a Parton his mind broke away. At his trial several Days ago Kahan was found not guilty by reason of insanity. Kahan was ordered placed in a mental institution until the doctors decide if the part of him that is still in Vietnam has rejoined his now Kahan smoking his cigarette in the psychiatric Ward talked for the first Tim about the events that had made him another relic of the Don t know myself Why i did in i know what i did but i Don t know Why i could Stop myself. They say it comes from being so depressed so Many years depressed wit Vietnam that i snapped. You d get sent out on patrols with an inter Preter he d be a South vietnamese officer Kahan said. The Guy would single people Outin a Village and throw them into a hut. I m out Side and i hear these screams the first time look in the hut and the interpreter is burning the breast of this woman with his Cigar. She could t have been More than 14 or is. I said to the sergeant what s he doing the ser Geant says you supposed to be watching out Side not inside what did that do to you he was asked. Who knows later on i d be inside the hut you get drawn in. One Day there was this girl she was about in and she had a baby an the interpreter put a lit Cigar on the Bottom of the baby s foot. I smacked his hand away. The interpreter got mad. He started screaming that it was his Job and All i was doing was watching. He said i should be doing some of you we All did something. There was an old French fort outside Hill is. That was South of Danang. The fort was being held by a company of South vietnamese regulars. About eight pc shot rifles and the company ran out of the fort. The pc came in and stole thousands of Booby traps placed them in this Valley we called it Leach Valley and we had to go through it every Day. Every Day we find one Booby trap and then we go away and at nigh they re dig the whole Valley the pc civilians and we come Back the next Day and hit these bouncing bellies they go up eight to 10 me ters and then explode with us. Adler loses an Arm. Another Guy Jones had extensive facial damage. Yon could t even make out his face. Then when we got into the villages. I went right into the huts with the interpreters and got a on the in would you do they were All raping a girl that s How they questioned girls raping them and then they said. All right it s your turn the firs time i had to simulate it. But then sometimes it got Shook his head. The pc would Cut off Village chiefs head and leave it on d rape girls. It was atrocity against atrocity. Why should i remember the girls som lived some died. I Don t even remember which. 1 remember All our Guys that the killed and wounded. Do you feel any remorse about killing the Girt in Queens be was asked. "1 Don t fed Terry for her be said. Know 1 should but i can t get any feeling about her. I feel sorry or myself that i had Togo out and do such a the shame of it is. Fin not going to be Thela one i a be said. I meet them when i was arrested in the Queens House of detention the Manhattan House everywhere. Guys from Nam Drifting through the criminal jus Tice system. Now it s Only for burglaries. I see them though. They re looking for heavy dear Ann la adm parents before 1 letter is not anti Hare a wide who Are Carrylina i what he was , the biggest Entrance 1 had was my Tatoo he tapped the bulldog with the usic Collar. The minute Guys in the de Tention House saw it a lot of conversation started. Talking about where we were in Nam. Violence does t bother them. They reall looking for a cause. 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