“The war in Vietnam was not lost in the field, nor was it lost of the front pages of the New York Times, or on the college campuses. It was lost in Washington, D.C." General H.R. McMaster
"I knew if I were still alive on March 5, 1968, I could get on the plane in Da Nang we used to call the 'Freedom Bird.' I could fly away and forget the whole thing. It turned out not to be quite so easy to forget it."
U.S. air strikes and artillery opened a path to embattled Marines who were pinned flat for two days by North Vietnamese mortar attacks and human wave charges near the DMZ.