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panic, and one day I couldn’t find a Hungarian lieutenant who was hiding under my desk during an attack. When I found him, he said, ‘Even communists get scared’.”
The communists had reason to be scared even when an attack was not in progress since the South Vietnamese hated the communists. “They would always want one of us to go out anywhere with them so that the South Vietnamese wouldn’t attack them,” Paul said. “They ended up leaving.” Paul stayed behind, though, to build bunkers for the people to take shelter in during the mortar fire.
Paul was also involved in tunnel ratting, or searching out tunnels used by the North Vietnamese for camps or storage purposes. “In the late ‘60s, I found a VC base camp,” Paul said. Paul received a medal for finding the camp.
He does not display that medal or any of the other medals he received in Vietnam. “They’re all in a box somewhere,” Paul said. “They wouldn’t buy a cup of coffee now - it’s all history.”
Paul’s Vietnam history also includes a tale of love since it was there that he met his wife, Cucie. “I saw her for the first time during a mortar fire barrage,” Paul said. “I noticed that she didn’t seem to be as scared as the others even though she was a young girl at the time.”
The Baldwins were married twice in Vietnam in a Buddhist ceremony and another ceremony to satisfy the American officials. They had to appear before court, the village chiefs had to sign the marriage papers and approve them and the police traced Cucie’s background, and all of the officials collected fees. “If
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