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Sunday, 25 February 2007
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Turning The Tide
Contributed by J D I was 16 years old in 1968. I knew as much about the world around me as the average 16 year old did. I was aware of Vietnam because my brother took a tour there with the 25th Infantry Division and because it was always on the television. Intertwined with war news were always stories about protestors and draft card burners. They weren’t reported to us in the news as communist party and socialist inspired protestors, however. That is something I’d learn later when I was but a few years older and beginning to pay attention to such things. The North Vietnamese began an offensive on lunar new year day in January of 1968, the year of the monkey. The Vietnamese name for the day is Tet Nguyen Dan, referred to as Tet. So now, it’s commonly called the Tet offensive of 1968.
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Contributed by J D on February 25, 2007 at 05:50 PM in , , , , , | Comments |