Use ideas from these two passages to describe US soldiers' attitudes toward the communist guerillas they fought in Vietnam. Fiction: “He was a short, slender young man of about twenty. I was afraid of him – afraid of something – and as he passed me on the trail I threw a grenade that exploded at his feet and killed him.” — “Ambush,” Tim O’Brien

"Ambush" from The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien. Copyright ©1990 by Tim O'Brien. Used by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. Nonfiction: “The men we had scorned as peasant guerrillas were, in fact, a lethal, determined enemy . . . . we fought for no cause other than our own survival.”

— A Rumor of War Philip Caputo

"Prologue pgs xiii-xvi" from the book A Rumor of War, edited by Philip Caputo. Copyright ©1977 by Philip Caputo. Reprinted by permission of Henry Holt and Company.