Posted on 01/29/2018 6:26:36 PM PST by DJ Taylor
A tour de force..!
Bravo..!
Excellent account..!
Here's what my days looked like that week.
Sure there are many others on here. Hue, Khe Sanh and more.
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WOW, what an amazing memoir, thanks for this!!! I was only 8 years old then, so didn’t gain any knowledge at the time. I’ve had to rely on reading and conversations long after. It is shocking how the US Left transformed a total disaster for the communists into a long-term strategic victory for their “cause”.... simply disgusting.
By the time this was happening, I had finally been released from Camp Pendleton Naval Hospital and was awaiting a decision by the Corps to keep me in or give me a medical discharge.
Yeah, that’s pretty much what happened.
Must be his expired Chu Hoi card lol
Welcome home.
Thanks for the memoir
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“So, does this mean Ann-Margret’s not coming?”
The VietCong followed Giap’s guerilla war doctrine that said successful insurrection had four stages. Without belaboring the point, the fourth stage was what they called a “general uprising” of the people. They launched the Tet Offensive in the expectation that the people of RVN would follow their lead, rise up and overthrow the Saigon government.
To the dismay of the communist theorists, it didn’t work out quite that way, and due in large part to their failure to factor in the presence of the US military. As a result, Tet was a military bloodbath for the communists, and the RVN people were smart enough to keep their heads down and not “rise up” against a government that had the support of The USA.
As a surprise attack, Tet was initially successful, just like Pearl Harbor was a success. But in the end, it wiped out the VietCong as a military force, and the war after that was pretty much us against the NVA.
“...so they resorted to their favorite Communist tactic; they lied.”
That can’t be. Uncle Walter Cronkite, the most trusted man in America said they won!
Oh wait - he was a commie too.
My enlistment date, Feb 8th 1968
L8r
Thanks for posting.
TET of 69 was bad enough.
Me too. I was only 7 when Tet happened. News of the VN war scared me though. I would see our soldiers fighting on the evening news and was always worried about them. Every Sunday we said prayers for them at church. Just some of my memories of the time.
Great story! I am glad you lived to tell it.
As it was 50 years ago, our greatest enemy is within — liberals, democrats, communists, etc.
Thank you for your service.
Thanks for the photos and reminder from a 2 year Redcatcher.
Yes, thank you for your service and for that firsthand narrative. God bless you.
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