Posted on 01/30/2019 10:23:43 AM PST by redcatcherb412
51 years old, how time flies. For all you TETvets on here that had a memorable night January 31st 1968.
Thank you for your service sir, and I will always curse Walter Cronkite for his disservice to you.
“I doubt that Hanoi was all that unhappy about the outcome. Their goal was to conquer South Vietnam for themselves and they may have seen the VC as a potential rival that they would need to push aside anyway.”
My recollection of events after the fall of Saigon in ‘75 is that the VC were really treated no better than the ARVN’s. A typical commie strategy was to consolidate power once victory is achieved, and this meant neutralizing rivals.
Before leaving office, Obama visited Communist Vietnam most likely to thank the Communists for making it possible for him to be elected President of the United States. For you see, without the Vietnam War and the 1968 Tet Offensive, Obama would still be a Community Organizer and hanging out in Chicago bath houses, but the “Butterfly Effect” of the 1968 Tet Offensive made it possible for Barack Hussein Obama, a homosexual Muslim Communist, to be elected to the highest office in the land.
During the Vietnam War, the 1968 Tet Offensive resulted in the annihilation of Viet Cong units throughout South Vietnam and was a disaster for the Communist insurgency; it never recovered from its loses. This Tet Offensive was a coordinated “Do or Die” attack by every Viet Cong unit in South Vietnam on the night of January 30 and the morning of January 31, 1968 that simultaneously struck every South Vietnamese City, village, and military installation in an attempt to win the war in one country wide attack; they failed and they paid the price for their failure; they died.
The war was carried on after Tet 1968 by invading North Vietnamese, and North Vietnam could never move sufficient troops down the Ho Chi Minh Trail to ever hope to defeat the United States effort in South Vietnam, so they resorted to another Communist tactic; they lied.
1968 was a Presidential Election year in the United States, and the Communist Party USA attempted to use the Tet Offensive to influence the election by claiming it was a Communist victory and the war was lost. This American Communist Party organized an anti-war movement and assembled enough strength through this movement to seize control of the Democrat Party that summer during the 1968 Democrat Convention in Chicago.
These Communists attempted to nominate a Presidential candidate who would end the war and they failed, but the Communist Party USA still retained control of the Democrat Party, and this Party managed to elect enough Leftists to Congress to cut funding for the Vietnam War and the war was then lost, so in this way the 1968 Tet Offensive was indeed a Communist victory.
After using the Tet Offensive to gain control of the Democrat Party, the Communist Party USA never lost control of the Democrat Party, and when a few decades later they managed to elect an avowed Marxist Communist, Barack Hussein Obama, to the Presidency of the United States, it made the 1968 Tet Offensive the greatest Communist victory of all times.
....was bomb humper,hauled ammo at night from dump to base (night line delivery)load,haul,return waiting empty,and then do it again..most nights just drove 12-14 hrs..F-4s..C130’s gunships..1 Aussie sqdrn..
Blackspot sqdrn..and assorted Thai A-1Es
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58,000 American patriots were lost in that war. There is no way of knowing how many of those might have gone on to hold significant leadership roles in industry or politics. One can certainly engage in hypotheticals all day, but of those 58K whose to say one would not have undermined Clinton's political career in Arkansas before it ever got off the ground, or might have defeated GWB in the 2000 primary. One can only speculate...
I remember at Chu Lai, there would be spilled bombs
at road intersections. We used to sit on them waiting
for a cattle car. Wish I’d taken some pictures then.
Thanks for being there.
They got lucky once and hit our bomb dump. Luckily
it was the second or third mortar round so the ordinance
guys were in their holes but they lost every thing and
went around in skivvies for a day or so.
My perimeter guard station was not far away but I was
on days then. When I went out the next time there were
all these funny bushes made out of steel sticking in
the ground. Our hut area was a mile or two away but
we could see bombs being carried up in the blast and exploding. Thought it was like a nuke, wave knocked me
over into a fox hole.
Eyep...just when ya think you’re far enuff away...you ain’t. Worked with EOD a few times ( doing a favor) I didn’t know butt plates (bomb ends) could roll that far...*smiles*
I was a bit later than you..1970 at Quang Tri that c2 was still rough
duty then,Dong Ha was really hit hard about your time I think,
C2 still have bad memories of that place..rockets and Fresca.
democraps
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