traditional celebration that brings the Vietnamese a sense of

happiness, hope and peace. However, in recent years, It also

bring back a bitter memory full of tears. It reminds them the

1968 bloodshed, a bloodiest military campaign of the Vietnam War

the North Communists launched against the South.

The "general offensive and general uprising" of the north marked

the sharp turn of the Vietnam War. Today there have been a great

number of writings about this event. However, it seems that many

key facts in the Communist campaign are still misinterpreted or

In the mid-80, living in Saigon after being released from the

Communist "re-education camp," I read a book published in the

early 1980's in America about the story of the 1968 Tet

Offensive. It said that the North Vietnamese Army supreme command

had imitated one of the greatest heroes of Vietnam, King Quang

Trung, who won the most spectacular victory over the Chinese

aggressors in the 1789 counter-attack - in planning the 1968

The book quoted King Quang Trung's tactic of surprise. He let the

troops celebrate the 1789 Tet Festival one

resolution expressing the determination of the United Sates in

than half of the objectives. Had the Vietnamese Communists

began in 1950 when the U. S. began to subsidize the French Army

interests are one of the biggest problems with the political

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Approximate Pages = 12 (250 words per page double spaced)