Sunday, January 28, 2018

Remembering 1968: The Tet Offensive

Article Title: Remembering 1968: The Tet Offensive

Snippet of Article: "...The night before, he had joined his Marines in prayer. "Everybody held hands," he recalled. "This was our prayer: 'God, we know we are about to see you in person. If we got to die on this tower let us die like men and Marines and don't embarrass ourselves, our families or the Marine Corps. Amen.'" John Olson, then a 20-year-old Army photographer, described one of the images in this exhibit, of the first 12 men that went up the tower: "And within 30 seconds, five of them were critically injured ..."

Article Source: www.ktvq.com