A stereo set was blaring in an enlisted men's hootch shortly after midnight as two majors from the 5th Mechanized Division made their rounds of the U.S. Army camp in South Viet Nam's Quang Tri province. The officers stopped at the hootch and told the five black G.I.s to turn down the music. Defiantly, one of the men turned the stereo up full blast; angrily, one of the officers yanked out the plug. Five pistol shots rang out. Major Michael Davis of Bennetsville, S.C., managed to drag himself to a first-aid station....
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