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Though ominous harbingers of trouble had been in the air for days, most of South Viet Nam lazed in uneasy truce, savoring the happiest and holiest holiday of the Vietnamese year. All but a few Americans retired to their compounds to leave the feast of Tet to the Vietnamese celebrators filling the streets. The Year of the Monkey had begun, and every Vietnamese knew that it was wise to make merry while there was yet time; in the twelve-year Buddhist lunar cycle, 1968 is a grimly inauspicious year...
...elite" should be grateful for our sheltered existence. We should also recognize the limitations that this existence imposes. Maybe then we will complain a little less and cease wallowing in the odd culture of disquiet that we have created. In 1969, the year after the Tet Offensive, the Beatles sang "Here Comes the Sun." In 1993, Kurt Cobain blew off his head with a shotgun. We really must grow...
...Great Depression in the '30s, World War II in the '40s, the cold war and threat of nuclear Armageddon in the '50s, civil unrest and Vietnam in the '60s. In just one eventful year, 1968, there were two assassinations, of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy; the Tet offensive in Vietnam; black-power protests at the Mexico City Olympics; and a tumultuous presidential campaign. Today we have wars between Kurdish factions that no one can quite tell apart, and a presidential campaign that has generated less interest than any in recent memory. "A lot of tension went...
...that America was fighting for inaccessible reasons in an obscure little Southeast Asian country seemed to blow up in America's face with the communists' Tet offensive in late January...
...YEARS AGO, I KNELT AND TOOK A RUBBING from the Vietnam Memorial wall in Washington--the name of Aloysius P. McGonigal. I knew the story of his death. McGonigal, a Jesuit priest, had found his way to Vietnam as a chaplain. During the Tet offensive in early 1968, he seized an M-16 and tried to storm the citadel in the old imperial capital of Hue. He died going up the hill, with a communist's bullet in his head...