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Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong. Rat Kiley and his Stories…. This is the story of Mark Fossie and his childhood sweet heart Mary Anne Bell
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Rat Kiley and his Stories… • This is the story of Mark Fossie and his childhood sweet heart Mary Anne Bell • Rat Kiley claims that his first assignment at a supply station in the Chu Lai mountains-a station so calm and under control that a civilian (woman) would even be safe.
I Got This! • Fossie goes to work appealing to different contacts he has made all over the world • Six weeks later Mary Anne Bell arrives in a helicopter • Immediately, she goes to work learning everything she can about the camp; its men, the day-to-day activities, and its purpose.
Damn Girl! • Mary Anne Bell proves to be a quick learner. -She learns how to cook -She learns some Vietnamese -She learns basic battlefield medical techniques -She cuts her hair short and all but drops her “womanly” side
Fossie grows increasingly uncomfortable with Mary Anne Bell’s behavior… • He suggests that they get married and puts her to work planning the wedding • She soon becomes bored with the busy work and starts disappearing throughout the day, only to return very late at night
Ok… GO HOME! • Fossie tries to send his now fiancé home… but she disappears. • For three weeks she goes missing-when she returns she walks right passed his tent and doesn’t even acknowledge him. • Instead, she follows the special forces soldiers into their tent….
Confused, Fossie and two others wait outside the special forces tent • He begins to hear strange chanting and singing-he identifies Mary Anne’s voice among them • He lunges into the tent to find her and the special forces involved in some tribal ritual • The head of a leopard is on some kind of altar at the front of the room, its skin hangs from the ceiling.
Ummmmm, You’ve changed… • Mary Anne is dressed in the outfit she was wearing when she arrived in camp • Except… around her next she was wearing a necklace made of human tongues. • She berates Fossie for not understanding what was going on outside of camp and that she enjoyed going out on ambush with the green berets. • Kiley stops the story there-as at that point in the story is when he is redeployed to Alpha Company • But he says he later ran into a former soldier in the camp who claimed that she simply disappeared into the night.