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DemoTex

(26,447 posts) Wed Jan 31, 2018, 11:34 AM Jan 2018

It was 50 years ago today (January 31, 1968 at 02:30 AM) .. [View all]

It was 50 years ago, today (January 31, 1968, at 02:30 am). The beginning of the end, some call it. But it dragged on for another deathly five years, thanks mainly to Nixon and Kissinger (IMO), and their non-existent 1968 "plan" to end the war. I am currently reading the Bowden book, "Hue 1968." All three are great reads. Today would be a very good day to read about this epic day in US and Vietnamese history.

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It was 50 years ago today (January 31, 1968 at 02:30 AM) .. [View all] DemoTex Jan 2018 OP

I read Hue 1968 a couple of weeks ago. flt rsk Jan 2018 #1

Good timing! kentuck Jan 2018 #6

Nixon got elected in 1968 on a promise to END the war FakeNoose Jan 2018 #2

kick for truth... Blue_Tires Jan 2018 #3

Uncle Walter said we lost. lpbk2713 Jan 2018 #4

"And that's the way it is .." DemoTex Jan 2018 #7

We'd win most of the stand up fights. Ligyron Jan 2018 #5