One way to bring this up in a roundabout
way that might be effective in this context
 is to point out the military connection.
Military planners have long advocated keeping soldiers in
their peer groups after injury or psychological trauma of
battle (rather than removing them to isolated hospital wards).
That approach (and others) arose from social research
showing this minimized long term problems.  My guess is that
Vietnamese military planners used those strategies.
Why is it that they are negelected now...


Bill Magee
Asst. Prof., Dept. of Sociology
University of Toronto
(416) 978-5405