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Today is the publication date of This Time We Win: Revisiting the Tet Offensive, by James Robbins. ... I vividly remember following news of the Tet offensive in 1968 and subsequently fell for virtually every element of the myth of Tet that Robbins exposes in this lucid, important book. The book thus rings a bell with me, as I suspect it will for many readers of this site. Robbins argues that the myth of Tet has lived on to do much damage.

Connecticut's Democratic Attorney General Richard Blumenthal is taking heavy fire for a series of statements he made over several years in which he either explicitly or implicitly claimed to be a Vietnam veteran, when in fact he is not. His defense is that he misspoke - using the word "in" instead of "during" the war, according to a spokesman. ... The scandal doesn't depend on what the meaning of the word "in" is.... Mr. Blumenthal's foibles may not be as egregious as Iowa Democratic Sen. Tom Harkin's references to mythical combat air patrols over Vietnam, or the phantom sniper fire...

namvets.com Welcome home Brothers and Sisters! The gang assembles for the 4th of JULY Parade in LaPorte, IN 2004 A Memorial That Tells The Truth In 1975, as the last helicopter frantically left the roof of the U.S. Embassy in Saigon, it was virtually unthinkable that a memorial to the nearly 60,000 American soldiers who had perished in the Vietnam War would one day stand on the same spot on Washington's National Mall where anti-war protest rallies had earlier gathered. Six years later, it was equally unimaginable that the just-chosen design for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial would, when built, turn...