Then, a crusading journalist named Julianne Miller, researching a book on unreported wartime massacres, unearths an old Vietnamese woman’s testimony. The woman, whose entire family perished in the fire, has never stopped searching for the "young lieutenant with the soft voice." Miller’s investigation points directly at Deakins.
"Do you remember their faces?"
Deakins hangs up.
Deakins’s lawyer advises him to stonewall. "You were following orders. The fog of war." word of honor -2003 film-
By the time the fires died and the smoke cleared, thirty-seven civilians were dead, including women and children. The official report, signed by both men, cited a firefight with a Viet Cong regiment. It was a lie that fit the war’s dark machinery. They were both decorated, promoted, and sent home. a crusading journalist named Julianne Miller