"It was three weeks ago today when I arrived in Saigon. We have worked every day since then, including Saturdays and Sundays. Today, though, we gave up about 2:00 PM, ate, and took the rest of the day off. This consisted of wandering around town, getting film at the PX; and then I heard a band playing and went to find a US Marine Band concert in progress, apparently dedicating a new statue in front of the National Assembly building—a statue honoring the South Vietnamese soldiers" (Jim Burns, 30 October 1966).