[Nextrush]

This link is a review of the Braestrup book, which I read as a teenager.

www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/airchronicles/aureview/1978/nov-dec/bishop.html

Video on You Tube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1vJqTN-qVI

[blam]

"The story of this attack was the first of many distorted stories that would be spread by the mainstream media in the weeks to come."

I was 24 and my only child would be born in three weeks. I am still mad at the media and smile today when I read that one is having financial difficulties.

God Bless those boys who gave their lives.

[YOUGOTIT]

“but visually speaking the attack was shocking to Americans sitting in their living rooms.”

During Tet and the second try at another Tet the VC in South Vietnam were essentially eliminated from the war and thousands of VC and North Vietnamese Communist were killed it was one of the greatest victories in History by the US Military.

But the anti-American left-wing media who supported the Communist never stated that it was a victory and made it look as though it was a defeat. This and the other anti-American left-wing pig faced Nazi anti war idiots helped to kill many Americans and millions of South Vietnamese.

I curse those who supported the Communist.

[JoanVarga]

THANK YOU for posting this! Allow me to point to an article I bookmarked recently from Commentary magazine entitled, "Who Owns the Vietnam War?"

Today even the New York Times has had to concede that Tet was an overwhelming American victory. But, like many others, it still refuses to acknowledge the implications. Tet not only destroyed the Vietcong as an effective political and military force; together with the siege of Khe Sanh, it also crippled the NVA. Like the Somme or Verdun in World War I, these big battles exacted a price in “a lost generation” of North Vietnamese youth. Small wonder that in mid-1968 General Giap made the fateful decision to scale back NVA operations to hit-and-run raids while relying more heavily than ever on the sanctuaries in Laos and Cambodia.

[BenLurkin]

It was our first introduction to the enemy within.

[oh8eleven]

I was Marine artillery up on the DMZ and the action had been hot and heavy for months prior to Tet. We knew Khe Sahn had become a focal point for the NVA and figured "Uncle Ho" had finally decided to stand and fight. We were more than ready.
We kicked their butts and wiped out thousands upon thousands of them. The final assault never happened and it's still unknown if that was because of the NVA's losses or because the siege at Khe Sahn was just a ploy to draw attention away from the rest of the country. Personally, I believe it was the former.

Semper Fi ...

[Yo-Yo]

MSM coverage of the Tet Offensive and of Iraq today just goes to show that the more things change, the more they stay the same.

[VOA]

In a very detailed book called "Big Story" author Peter Braestrup,
who worked for the "Washington Post" covering the war, laid out
how the media coverage misrepresented what really happened.

IIRC, an episode of "Declassified" on The History Channel
did a decent job of recounting what really went down during Tet,
as oppossed to the filtered story we got from the US presstitutes.

Even more suprising, one of the best interviewees was a young
history professor from one of the California State University
system...I can't remember which campus. The guy might be the
the next Victor Davis Hanson, i.e., a non-revisionist historian.