Khe Sanh
"Khe Sanh was the biggest ruse of the war. The Vietnamese gave every appearance of threatening
Khe Sanh, surrounding the place with thousands of troops and shelling the base relentlessly. No
serious attempt to seize the Marine base ever occurred. The Vietnamese purpose was to distract
Westmoreland's attention from their preparations for the real Dien Bien Phu of the American
war, the surprise nationwide offensive at Tet, the Lunar New Year Holiday, of January 1968,
which broke the will of the Johnson administration and the American public to continue to
prosecute the conflict. The ruse succeeded."
"Khe Sanh was the biggest ruse of the war. The Vietnamese gave every appearance of threatening
Khe Sanh, surrounding the place with thousands of troops and shelling the base relentlessly. No
serious attempt to seize the Marine base ever occurred. The Vietnamese purpose was to distract
Westmoreland's attention from their preparations for the real Dien Bien Phu of the American
war, the surprise nationwide offensive at Tet, the Lunar New Year Holiday, of January 1968,
which broke the will of the Johnson administration and the American public to continue to
prosecute the conflict. The ruse succeeded."
| The war still hasn't ended for some. |
| I did manage to check out a cool little Pagoda in my wandering. |
