Chris I have read articles written by the generals stating the fact that they where thinking of quiting. General Giap memoirs are what the wife has read. The copy she has is in Vietnamese. I can read a little Vietnamese but I am very slow at it. So I have not read the whole book but I have read some of the high points.
It was published in 1985 titled " How WE Won the War" by General Giap
General Bui Tin has made statements that the war was lost at home not on the battle field. His 1995 Wall Street Journal interview has stated that. Here is a link to parts of that interview. http://www.viet-myths.net/BuiTin.htm
As for the people I was talking about it was the everyday common Vietnamese. I spent a lot of my time with them. One of my jobs was to be an emissary between them and the US Army. That was local around the main bases and the forward base camps. We had six Montagnard village scouts that where with us. I was in their villages and homes weekly if we where not on patrols. I am willing to bet that few on here where ever in as close contact will everyday Vietnamese as I was then.
It broke my heart when I had to leave many of them behind to be persecuted by the NVA and VC. Many of them died in the "reeducation" camps.
As for those that make up War stories. That is their problem. I have found that those that really saw actual combat rarely talk directly about it. I don"t think I have ever talked about any actual battle or fighting on this site. I Don"t want to remember that stuff. I do want to remember the people and things that happened over there.
I am not some big shot that ever made any decisions about what went on over there. I just know that the US did not handle itself very well from the beginning to the end. Many honorable men"s lives where wasted for nothing when we left. We should either have never been there or finished what we started.
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