Many S.Vietnamese were Catholic....but they still celebrate TET the Lunar New Year...all Vietnamese celebrate it regardless of religion...Sometime around Jan 20 ...
They did shoot alot during TET...lots of fireworks to...
I was in Cambodia in either April or May of 69 and it was funny because as I recall Nixon was denying our presence there at that time....one of the guys had a small Jap transistor radio and we used to listen to it...during our day holds...
The guys I was with said they had been there a couple of times a month or two prior to this...
I think that sums up my point.
I believe what you say--do you have anything firm to prove it?