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June 20, 1971
The long war is slowly coming to a conclusion. North and South Vietnam, as well as the United States, are showing its fatigue during Vietnam¡¯s struggle for independence against the resilient communists. However, The Americans have already begun to withdraw most of their forces. Currently, the core of their remaining military forces is the guards and transportation battalion. Among the conflicts only remaining soldiers are the Koreans. With the American army abandoning the engagement, already the Korean government has lost about 5000 young soldiers. How many more will sacrifice their lives?¡¦ 20:42 PM. News about the conflict arrives from R-POINT. Out of the 213 soldiers committed to the campaign 212 are dead, and one has survived. The survivor lost both legs and both eyes due during an explosion and his condition is near fatal. The 212 dead soldiers¡¦some of the worst seen in this war¡¯s records up to now.
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November 13, 1971
William, suffering from Malaria, is showing signs of dehydration. In desperate need of medicine, I made my way down to the Korean army field hospital. The soldiers seed to be feeling slightly disturbed more so than normal. It feels like something¡¯s about to happen. Even though I don¡¯t understand Korean, the worlds sound so brash, like he¡¯s speaking German. I believe that this man is the one who knows the story about the dead soldiers during the last skirmish at R-POINT. Because there are only Asians in the room, it¡¯s difficult to get a read on the situation, but it¡¯s obvious that something terrible is about to go down¡¦ Something really horrible. What the hell could it be? I should head to the headquarters to find out what¡¯s happening.
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November 22, 1971
2:17 AM .The Korean Army's headquarter received an undecipherable radio transmission. Joe, the internal news transmitter at the Korean headquarters, relays the message as his expression!!! turns to absolute horror and utter hopelessness. It's a radio transmission of absolute horror. William throws me his camera and takes off for New York . I'm the only one correspondent left.
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December 3, 1971
This morning at 3:15 AM , another mysterious transmission comes in similar to last time. It's filled with static, gunfire, panic and chaos. Frightened, Joe can no longer speak. I peel off a $100 bill and ask him to tell me where the message is being transmitted from. I'm stunned to find out that the transmission is being dispatched from the loca tion where the worst casualties occurred, R-POINT. There are disturbing stories from R-POINT all the way back to here, a different kind of startling story. Last night, William played with the idea of "what if the people who died in the war returned to their hometowns as zombies...¡± I requested a meeting with the Captain Kang of the Korean army. He is oddly the sole survivor from the previous R-POINT conflict. He has lost both his legs as well as both his eyes, and presently has not made a statement to anyone. The rumor going around is that he is experiencing some symptoms of post-war psychological stress due to the traumatic incident. However, a statement is needed by him. A statement about what he saw in the R-POINT jungle is the first step in figuring out just what happened in the mysterious incident
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December 10, 1971
Today, even though Captain Kang agreed to an interviewed, he doesn't op en his mouth, not even a crack. He must have gotten orders from the higher-ups. The only person he's spoken to in the infirmary, about God only knows what because they speak only in Korean, is First Lieutenant Choi. However, I absolutely believe he has some pertinent information. I took the lieutenant out into the hallway to ask him about some things. Unexpectedly, he breaks out in proficient English. He informs me that he doesn't even want to say a word about the events that happened to Captain Kang at R-POINT. I'm extremely curious as to the last thing Captain Kang saw...everyone must be.
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December 20, 1971
It's been the same situation since last time. Joe tells me that last night the radio transmitted once again. This time though, the radio receiving room was being monitored by so many that it was unapproachable. Again I peeled off a $100 bill and handed it to him asking about to contents of the message. This time, however, he told me that he couldn't relay the information and refused the bribe.
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December 23, 1971
Today I met with Colonel Lee of the Korean Army's CID division, a man I formed a friendship with since the Korean War. But today however, it's easy to see that he is uneasy about my presence there. He already knows why I have come to see him. As he concluded his explanation about why he was refusing to speak to me, Captain Kang, the sole survivor of the R-POINT conflict, appeared in the doorway of the Colonel's office, and that's when I began to realize the connection between the mysterious radio transmissions and the captain. That's when I began to decide whether or not I wanted to deal with the matter of the missing military details. Am I going to give up, or search for this information? For a second time, Colonel Lee exclusively confirm!!!ed that Captain Kang was the only living survivor from R-POINT. It's unexplainable how Captain Kang could be the only one to survive such a strong explosion leaving a sea of corpses. At the end of the long interview with Colonel Lee, an agreement was reached to send an investigative unit to check out t his mysterious report about the radio transmissions from R-POINT. Of course with a spin to show the Korean Army in the best light ¡¦
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December 30, 1971
The only thing left of the war these days is the tedious political negotiations between Washington and the North Vietnamese. And within one year, Ho Chi Min will liberate Saigon which has been colonized for the past 400 years ¡¦ After that, there'll be no more war. And no one knows¡¦if this is the final material to come out of the Vietnam War. Tomorrow, I will travel along with Lieutenant Choi and eight member of a Korean military investigation party into R-POINT. Finally, it seems as though Colonel Lee from CID is going to confirm!!! whether the missing soldiers from R-POINT are still living or dead. Word has already spread among the soldiers of this classified investigation. Lieutenant Choi is carrying out this duty as a punishment for a shooting spree that occurred several days prior at the brothel.
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December 31, 1971. 16:27
11 o'clock, we arrive on the outskirts of R-POINT , a point 20 kilometers in from the Southern coast¡¦ 15 o'clock , while approaching a small village, its coordinates not even appearing on a map, we enter our first engagement¡¦ Corpses all dead by shooting¡¦Considering it's only been no more than 10 days since death, the high temperature and humidity of this place has sped up the decomposing process to make the corpses look further along¡¦ In the middle of inspecting a dead body, under a pile of corpses, a boy who looks to be about 12 or so is found still alive. On his bloody mess of a face a cynical smile is clearly apparent. Even though he is still gasping for air, the gunshot wound looks too deep to save him. Many of the bodies are pointing their weapons, but none of them ever fired a shot. Finally, I turned my back on the suffering young boy. At a village entrance, 11 o'clock and another at 3 o'clock, simultaneously from both directions there is AK rifle fire. There must obviously be someone shooting from above the dead young female soldier to explain the situation. I begin to ask Lieutenant Choi how the corpses are firing on him, but he stops my questioning. In the search team soldier's eyes there is a look of fear¡¦
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December 31, 1971. 20:30
Even though we traversed a marshy area up to our chests, lucky the camera in its waterproof case didn ' t get wet. Then in the jungle, five meters up ahead of us through a fog so dense it ' s hard to decipher things clearly, camp is somehow spotted. A swarm of mosquitoes constantly attack us. Even though we rub on mosquito repellant, the younger soldiers laugh at the fact that the mosquitoes react to the repellant is if it were perfume. In the afternoon, coming out of the marsh area I observe a curious inscription on a marker. I ask Lieutenant Choi about the meaning of the inscription engraved in Chinese characters. He tells me that it states, ¡° The Point of No Return ¡± . It looks like a gravestone put up during the past Independence War with France . The corpses and the dead young female soldier seen yesterday ¡¦ the missing soldier ' s radio transmission ¡¦ the strange engraving on the gravestone ¡¦ In any case, even though the investigative team witnessed these things their only thought is of returning after seven days. Before I leave, an old woman who sold me Rice Paper tells me a story about 600 French soldiers who disappeared from R-POINT ' s jungle dozens of years ago. The old woman, a person whose hands are stained with the blood of her country and would not be able to get out from there, advises me not to go in. But I'm an Irishman of Lutheran faith. Those tales have no effect on me.
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January 1, 1972
R-POINT Investigation, second day. 13:00 PM .
I greet the new year in Vietnam 's backcountry. Today it feels as if we are apart of an expedition party searching for an Aztec civilization. With my canteen empty, the heat rises and a thick fog rolls in. As the thick fog beings to lift, right in front of our noses stands a massive French style stone building. We can use this as a stronghold during our investigation. t looks as if no one has lived here for a long time from the massive amount of dark-red moss growing along the building. The inside¡¦somber. There are dozens of corridors branching off. If you make a wrong turn, it would be nearly impossible to return. Last night we had a small incident. Our radio malfunctioned. Everyone, after entering this place, has become more sensitive to the things around them.
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January 1, 1972
R-POINT Investigation, third day. 20:05 PM .
What the hell was that thing I saw a moment ago? Our position is seven o'clock in a forest of reeds. Should I say that the thing I saw was ¡°something?¡± Or was it ¡°someone?¡± Even though there is pale fog in the air, it wasn't the fog. Also, there is the eerie sound of a bell that doesn't stop. Am I the only one hearing that? It's evening, and in the corner Joe sits trembling without a sound sick and wounded. Could he have seen what I saw? Who in the world would believe me? 21:19 PM . As soon as night falls, rain begins to fall along with lightning strikes. All of a sudden Lieutenant Choi runs outside.
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During our R-POINT investigation, we see the first occurrence of a casualty. In front of the house, Private Jung's corpse hangs from a sharp wire by his neck. A message is urgently relayed to the Korean Army's Headquarters. I've never seen anything worse than this. Father's death¡¦ In a helicopter sent by Colonel Lee, I ride in the front with two dead bodies and get the hell out of R-POINT¡¦ Present time: 14:30 PM . A plane destined for New York , departed 20 minutes before. The one corpse found by the investigative team is of a soldier who has been missing for six months¡¦ But two days prior, I was smoking a cigarette with him!!! I don't want to remember anything that I saw. I don't even try to make sense of any of it. That's the only way the war can be doc-umented¡¦
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