Paying the price of America's retreat

In early 1968 during the Vietnam War, this writer remembers reflecting that the high tide of America's greatness might extend a few thousand meters outside the western wire of the Marine Corps Khe Sanh Combat Base, then under attack, and if we ever retreated from there our nation's decline might become inexorable.

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