“The Stars and Stripes called it the Tet Offensive: a massive coordinated attack across the county by the North Vietnamese in the early hours of January 31st 1968, the bloodiest day of the Vietnam War so far. The attack blew the doors off the secret side of the war. Apparently, when Walter Cronkite reported on the Tet carnage, he’d said—on air— ‘What the hell is going on? I thought we were winning the war.’
Suddenly everyone in the media was asking the question: What in the hell is going in Vietnam?
On February 2, LBJ used death as the success matrix of Tet, claiming 10,000 North Vietnamese had died and only 249 Americans…A lie Frankie was sure, given the number of deaths she’d witnessed at the Seventy-First alone…”
-The Women: A Novel
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