A state of disobedience

From the transcript at trial: Commonwealth of

Virginia v. Alvin Scheer

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DIRECT EXAMINATION, CONTINUED

BY MR. STENNINGS:

Q. Keep going, Alvin. Tell the judge what you saw and how you felt about it.

A. I saw the thing on TV. After the fighting was over, you know? When the National Guard and the Department of Public Safety folks started uncovering the bodies? God, it was awful. Poor little charred, shrunken things being lifted up out of that hole in the ground, some alone, some clutching onto one another. One case stuck in my mind; stayed there for weeks. It was a little girl—I think it was a girl but she was so bad it was hard to tell, no hair, clothes turned black—sorta wrapped around what was left of a baby. That one put my wife to throwin' up.

And one old man, looked like my grandfather from what I remember of him, just standing there, crying and crying.

Then the TV cut off and we didn't get no more news about the mission for a while. . . .

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