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LBJ used fictitious enemy body counts to con the public while he micro managed the war to larger US losses than we should have had to incur.

I was a kid waiting for my draft number to come up and I watched those body counts on the television every night. Even then, I knew the counts just didn't add up.

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I was a kid waiting for my draft number to come up and I watched those body counts on the television every night. Even then, I knew the counts just didn't add up.

I was in Vietnam from 1967 to 1968, and as a radio operator in the Marines, I reported actual enemy body counts, and that was on a daily basis. We didn't report fraudulent body counts; we actually saw the bodies and tallied them up. And, while I was there, for one year only, I reported a lot of dead enemy. And that was just from my company alone.

However, when it comes to what was reported to the American public, I don't know if the figures were made to look "better" or not. But, from personal experiences, and if we can extrapolate, we did kill a lot of enemy.