Barry Romo, a former Army officer in the Vietnam War who became a leading antiwar organizer and bore witness to devastating U.S. bombing runs on Hanoi during a 1972 visit to North Vietnam with activists including folk singer Joan Baez, died May 1 in Chicago. He was 76.
Early on March 16, 1968, U.S. soldiers descended on South Vietnam on a search-and-destroy mission that within a few hours left hundreds of infants, children and other civilians dead. A historian contends that the massacre would have likely never happened if not for the ambitious officer who planned the mission and longed for a battalion command.
Don Luce evolved from a bystander in the Vietnam War to an influential activist who helped boost the antiwar movement back home in the U.S. in 1970 by showing members of a congressional team the horrific conditions inside a prison run by U.S.-ally South Vietnam.
![142p av The 3rd Battalion, 187th Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division on the day they took the mountain, west of A Shau Valley, called Dong Ap Bia, or Hamburger Hill. [jc]; One soldier holds an IV bottle high up in the air as a medic puts bandages around a chest wound of an unidentified African-American soldier. Men of the 3rd Battalion, 187th Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division have been trying to take the bomb-scarred, blood-soaked mountaintop - called Hamburger Hill - from North Vietnamese forces. [cg]](https://www.stripes.com/special-reports/vietnam-stories/1969/migrated.image.Image_75674719.jpg/alternates/LANDSCAPE_300/One%20soldier%20holds%20an%20IV%20bottle%20high%20up%20in%20the%20air%20)
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