The entire poem that Pvt. Horn reads a portion of from the VC peasant women's diary can be found on page 115 of the 1987 book (mass market edition, 2004) "Stalking the Vietcong. Inside Operation Phoenix: A Personal Account" by Stuart A. Herrington (first published in 1982 with the title "Silence Was a Weapon"). The actual poem had been found in a diary on the body of NVA warrant officer Vo Dinh Phuoc in Vietnam: "If you are to be a flower, then be one that always faces the sun. And if you want to be a rock, then try to be a precious stone. And if it is a bird that you must be, then by all means be a white dove. But if you want to be a real human being, then you must be a Communist."
First of three appearances of James Hong (Quang) is the series. He will also play the NVA Colonel is Angel of Mercy and Jimmy in Saigon pt 2.
Opening blurb:
From 1963 to 1967, more than 20 Buddhist monks committed ritual suicide to protest political oppression in South Vietnam.