Are there any documented examples of an officer being "fragged" during the Vietnam war?

I don't know much about American history, and I've been wondering lately whether there were many parallels between the early US and the current state of the EU?

I'm tired of seeing so many people give opinions about this controversial topic, and I have to bite my tongue because while I do have opinions, I don't know the whole story. Therefore, I want to know the whole story, in order to either validate my own opinions, or come to a different conclusion altogether. Where can I start (other than wikipedia), and which books/ documentaries/ sources are the most unbiased on this issue?

I've been told that for most of history, water was not considered drinkable and that many cultures preferred to drink mild alcoholic drinks because the acidity brought on during fermentation kept it sterile (Posca in the mediterranean, hopped beer in northern europe, etc). Some cultures today still believe that cold water is unhealthy or that water as a whole is linked to diseases such as tuberculosis.

This seems to have changed over the past century in the West, so I'm curious:

1. Were there any older cultures or periods in history where pure water drinking was considered healthy?

2. how did cultures with religious or social prescriptions against alcohol keep their water sanitary?

3. In cultures that today now consider water healthy, when and how did that shift occur? What groups encouraged the transition?

edit: Century, not decade.

Could anyone recommend any sources on what technologies were available to bronze age peoples? Things like weapons and armour, means of transport, farming devices, wind/water mills, methods of clothing production and things like that. I did take a look at what was in the FAQ and that has given me a few avenues of investigation, but I was hoping for more.

I'm currently working on a fantasy setting where one of the major 'quirks' is that Iron simply doesn't exist (or does not exist in any sort or usable amounts) and I plan on drawing a lot of the minutiae from real world examples.

I know only about Mongols and the Manchus, was it also conquered before that?

Was there a period of time after slavery ended and before segregation began? If so, what was it like? Were races equal with only societal rules?

If I understand it correctly, the Chinese dynasties start with the Xia-Shang-Zhou dynasties. However, writing starts during the Shang dynasty with oracle bones, so how do we know that the Xia dynasty really existed ? How do we know what happened ? It seems to me that the timespan between the supposed-Xia and the later historians (~800 years) is too long and that their writings doesn't hold any historical value.

So, how do we know about what happened during the Xia Dynasty in Ancient China if there was no writing system yet at that time ?

I read this on a history board. Apparantly, the fear that Russia was going to overtake Germany soon was one of the factors that led to Germany wanting war in 1914 and not later. Is there any truth to this? Did the military staff actually think this or was the information I read wrong? Why would a Russian military from 1916 onwards be better than the German military? What kind of reforms were they going through?

Either the perspective of a normal soldier or a officer is fine.

Heck, the perspective of even someone from the Caliphate is fine as well.

I am talking about stereotypical names like Friedman or Goldstein.

Edit: and big hands?

It's one thing to describe the Anyang culture or to construct a literary analysis, but does anyone actual belief the myths? No one goes around trying to prove that the Amazons were real, right?

I have been looking in to my family history and have traced the family back to Vis/Lissa. The surname and ethnicity is to my understanding Croatian (the ić ending is the give away I believe) but almost all the records I'm finding have Italian sounding personal names. Were the names entered in an Italian form (the birth, marriage etc records are in the Italian language) or did ethnic Croatians choose Italian names, Girolamo, Antonia, Vincenzo, Rocco, Lucia, etc at this time (the 19th Century)?