THE TET OFFENSIVE -Jan. 31 1968

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[bt-99]

Great post

[cvq3842]

Thanks for remembering. I will bookmark to read later.

[montag813]

Wasn't Kerry in Cambodia during this?

[kellynla]

1968 Viet Cong attack U.S. Embassy


As part of the Tet Offensive, Viet Cong soldiers attack the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. A 19-man suicide squad seized the U.S. Embassy and held it for six hours until an assault force of U.S. paratroopers landed by helicopter on the building's roof and routed them.

The offensive was launched on January 30, when communist forces attacked Saigon, Hue, five of six autonomous cities, 36 of 44 provincial capitals, and 64 of 245 district capitals. The timing and magnitude of the attacks caught the South Vietnamese and American forces off guard, but eventually the Allied forces turned the tide. Militarily, the Tet Offensive was a disaster for the communists. By the end of March 1968, they had not achieved any of their objectives and had lost 32,000 soldiers and had 5,800 captured. U.S. forces suffered 3,895 dead; South Vietnamese losses were 4,954; non-U.S. allies lost 214. More than 14,300 South Vietnamese civilians died.

While the offensive was a crushing military defeat for the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese, the early reporting of a smashing communist victory went largely uncorrected in the media and this led to a great psychological victory for the communists. The heavy U.S. casualties incurred during the offensive coupled with the disillusionment over the earlier overly optimistic reports of progress in the war accelerated the growing disenchantment with President Johnson's conduct of the war. Johnson, frustrated with his inability to reach a solution in Vietnam announced on March 31, 1968, that he would neither seek nor accept the nomination of his party for re-election.

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[ONETWOONE]

Yes I won' forget as I was half way through my tour at Nakhon Phanom along Mekong, as our other brothers in TLC and Vietnam. NKP 67-68.

[roaddog727]

In memory of our fallen comrades in arms.

[mountainlyons]

John Kerry and Jane Fonda and their types took the valiant effort of all that served in Viet Nam and turned it against them. The war was won but people like the traitor John Kerry working with the Viet Cong and the communists turned the victory into a defeat for their own political use. I am glad that we were able to stay the war and free Iraq. I hope that the John Kerrys of the world do not stop progress and snatch victory form the people of Iraq.

[xJones]

Wasn't Kerry in Cambodia during this?

Yesterday on Meet the Press, Kerry said he might not have been there exactly on Christmas day, 1968, but it was around then and he had been sent to help the CIA deliver weapons to the Khymer Rouge. And he was there, he had lots of pictures he had taken to prove it, and he had a cap the CIA guy had given him. And even though Nixon was president-elect in Dec. 1968, he apparently was able to authorize the CIA for this mission, although Kerry was very sketchy about the Nixon part.

BTW, if you buy all that I'd really like to talk to you about some prime real estate deals I have.:)

[kellynla]

Contrary to what Cronkite et al the other antiwar journalists in the MSM were reporting; the NVA & VC were defeated!

And thanks to FOX, the Washington Times, conservative talk radio, the Internet and others; such inaccurate reporting about the war in Iraq and/or Afghanistan will not be accepted and/or tolerated today !

Semper Fi,
Kelly

[geedee]

Militarily, the Tet Offensive was a disaster for the communists. By the end of March 1968, they had not achieved any of their objectives and had lost 32,000 soldiers and had 5,800 captured. U.S. forces suffered 3,895 dead; South Vietnamese losses were 4,954; non-U.S. allies lost 214. More than 14,300 South Vietnamese civilians died.

Yet Walter Cronkite . . . the Liberals poster boy of "virtue and truth" . . . declared it a defeat, thereby sealing our fate because us Conservatives had no way of firing back at the MSM'ers then.

I will be forever shamed for my timidity at that time.

I knew the truth . . . that we'd kicked VC and North Vietnam Regulars butt . . . and so did many, many other Conservatives . . . but we did nothing to counter Uncle Walter's and his Media Whores' claims that "ALL WAS LOST."

My generation allowed the U.S. to lose the ONLY war she's ever lost. I vowed then . . . NEVER AGAIN. NEVER! So long as I had breath . . . I would never again turn my back on U.S. soldiers.

I've kept that promise so far . . . the shame I feel is a healthy motivator.

[thejokker]

"tet" is major evidence that the MSM has lied to america before and cannot be trusted...

[kellynla]

"I vowed then . . . NEVER AGAIN. NEVER! So long as I had breath . . . I would never again turn my back on U.S. soldiers."

Just make sure that you do so!
And you educate the next generation and the next and the next...

Semper Fi,
Kelly

[SJackson]

An excellent book on the reporting of Tet.

Big Story: How the American Press and Television Reported and Interpreted the Crisis of Tet 1968 in Vietnam and Washington [ABRIDGED]

[xJones]

Thanks, I am very interested and will try to get the book.

[kellynla]

Well th MSM just has to be held to a higher standard!

What our fathers and grandfathers taught us applies more so today than ever before, "don't believe everything you read in the papers!"

Because the MSM in America and around the world is inundated with socialists and communists!

Semper Fi,
Kelly

[StarCMC]

Never forget the blood of heroes.

[SAMWolf]

The offensive that broke the VC's back bump.

[VNam68]

Amen!!

[OldSmaj]

This page is dedicated to all US Military Police killed or wounded during the 1968 Tet Offensive.

May they never be forgotten.

As long as good men remember, they will never be forgotten.

Thank you for posting this.