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To: Taro who wrote (712182)	4/27/2013 2:23:29 PM
From: longnshort	4 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572033

are you referring to after our army left nam because the tet offensive was the most lopsided defeat by any country at any time in the world according to some historians. the VC lost 50k killed and that many wounded. the US lost a couple hundred. Vietcong units not only did not reach a single one of their objectives -- except when they arrived by taxi at the U.S. Embassy in Saigon, blew their way through the wall into the compound and guns blazing made it into the lobby before they were wiped out by U.S. Marines Giap had thrown some 70,000 troops into a strategic gamble that was also designed to overwhelm 13 of the 16 provincial capitals and trigger a popular uprising. But Tet was an unmitigated military disaster for Hanoi and its Vietcong troops in South Vietnam. Yet that was not the way it was reported in U.S. and other media around the world. the VC never recovered from their loses. this was in 1968, the embassy thing was like in 1975 after we left