Some know when it started. Then again a lot think early to mid 60’s. A lot of history there. Thanks.
Bottom line, we greatly misread the motivations of the enemy.
It was Johnson that knew the war could never be won that way we were fighting it and continued on anyway. His incompetence borders on the criminal.
Here we were watching Russian and others, freighter unloading weapons and fuel in Haiphong, unfettered by us. Then chasing after and bombing them on the trails to S VN and even bombing them on the outskirts of Haiphong. But not the docks, not one bullet or bomb.
And we didn’t mine the Haiphong harbor until 1972. That amounts to treason in my mind. Disgraceful. The generals should have resigned en masse in protest of such nonsense and waste of American lives.
I will go to my grave remembering my two cousins and a friend that died there.