I probably didn't know what was going on and that it was called the Tet Offensive until some time after it was over and the guns stopped for a while. The civilians in Hue were comming up to our guys and telling us, in their broken english that the war would be over soon, because most of the VC were dead. The history channel didn't mention the 100's of civilians in Hue that the NVA murdered . I knew about that at the time, before I ever read about it, years later. The news reports back home must have been terrible talking about American casualties. My father wrote me that he hoped and prayed that I was all right. [He wasn't a real religious man and never talked or wrote that way.]
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