What you don't mind seeing the next morning, counting enemy dead instead of your own
What you don't mind seeing the next morning, counting enemy dead instead of your own
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I had always suspected the VC and NVA combined forces. Is this true?
4th grade
I was a toddler and still remember my dad yelling at Walter Cronkite.
Tet was the highlight of my tour of duty there.
Later, I heard that the general of the North Army (Giap, I believe) wrote a book and said they were seriously considering to surrender, but then heard of Cronkite and other idiots talking trash and he changed his mind.
Never forget it.
Rocket attack at 0-dark thrity. Run outside with gear as i was on hot platoon. Chu Lai deep sand. Rocket hit maybe 100 feet in front of me in the sand. Big expanding ball of orange sparks, sand must have attenuated the stuff low down or would have gotten hit.
After platoon formed up on the road, whole sky lit up. Big fireball rising to the south, looked like a nuke. Recall thinking “Where did the gooks get a nuke?”
Just the south bomb dump going up.
No more action rest of the night, sat in a tower waiting with a M-60 until dawn.
“So, does this mean that Ann-Margrat is not coming?”
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.