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Moment totake a mention a couple of additional arele who are here they three who came from vietnam who will be participating this afternoon and i think that for a number of reasons i want to introduce them including in reference to the past discussion, one of the key ways of talking about what has gone on, what is the harm of the war, is to have the faces and the voices of individual people and tran teortunate to have wan was an agent or an survivor will be part of agent orange survivor who will be on the panel this afternoon. Will beguyen fu talking about an effort to clear landmines and unexploded ordnance. Lai who is ao van victim of exploded and unexploded ordnance. I also want to mention two people who are not part of the book but who played a key role in helping to organize this panelence and the wednesday afternoon. That is terry province and John Mcauliffe from that vietnam peace memory she committee. We out peace commemor ....
That followed the 1968 tet offensive, the u. S. Media documented a growing crisis. Frequent stories of desertion, of drug use, combat, challenges to legitimate authority, along with reports of scandals and atrocities, most infamous of which was the massacre. And internal military documents tell much the same story. So in thinking about what happened after the tet offensive, we suggested that things were different in the period before 1968. So as we Start Talking about posttet, id start by giving you a quick picture of pretet. And the most common claim thats not going to work. The most common claim that originated in the military and circulated through the press is that in vietnam, the United States fielded the best trained, best equipped, best disciplined force in its history. A force with very high morale. Heres general westmoreland speaking in may 1966. Their performance is e ....
Manpower and morale after tet rather than the us via us war in vietnam, did something change . In the months and years that followed, media documented a growing crisis. Frequent stories of malaise and desertion, drug use, combat refusal, challenges to legitimate authority along with scandals and atrocities most infinite infamous was the massacre. Documents tell much the same story. In thinking about what happened after the tet offensive we suggested things were different in the period before 1968. As we Start Talking about post tet i thought i would give you a quick picture of pretran2. The most common claims the most common claims that are made within the military and circulated is that in vietnam the United States had the best trained, best equipped, best disciplined force in its history, one of high morale. Speaking in may 1966, exceeding my expectations. I have also the jou ....
And that suggests titling it manpower and morale after tet rather than in vietnam, that something changed. After the 1968 tet offensive, the media documented a growing crisis, frequent stories of malaise, challenges to authority and reports of scandals and atrocities, the most infamous of which was the mai lai massacre. And internal military documents tell much the same story. So in thinking about what happened after the tet offensive, we are thinking about we suggested that things were different before 1968. As we Start Talking about post tet, i thought it would give you i thought i would give you a really quick picture of pretet. The most common claim that originated within the military and circulated through the press is that in vietnam the United States had fielded the besttrained, bestequipped, bestdisciplined force in its history, a force of very high morale. Here is gene ....