TET

TET

Today is New Years Day in Vietnam (it falls on a different day each year). They call it Tet. Tet is their most important holiday/festival. They use the same lunar/solar calendar as the Chinese though China will celebrate New Years tomorrow.

I left Vietnam in August 1967. On their New Years day in 1968 (January 30), the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong began what our military called the Tet offensive. It lasted two months and was a turning point of the war. We were able to turn them back but it left many in the US disillusioned. It was a bloody time and we were severely hurt by their attacks. Support for the war went downhill from this point on. The publicity it got in the states really emboldened the anti-war factions and their ranks grew immensely. The war lasted over seven more years. I'm glad I got out when I did.