![]() ![]() Later studies of the uprising indicated that, militarily, Tet was a costly offensive for the Communist side. Nor were they supposed to show the Hue Citadel flying the Viet Cong flag or Marines fighting for their lives at Khe Sanh, which was in a remote corner of the DMZ, hard against the border with Laos and the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Three years into the American involvement in the fighting, the scenes on the nightly news were not supposed to show guerrillas on the grounds of the U.S. ![]() ![]() military broke the sieges in Khe Sanh, Hue, and Saigon, the Communists won an important psychological victory over the Americans during Tet, which indicated that the so-called “light at the end of the tunnel” was nothing more than the Reunification Express headed south on the NVA tracks. On the ground, it was the Viet Cong’s big push. In traveling around Vietnam, one of the American battlefields most difficult to visit is that of the Tet Offensive, which erupted in winter 1968 as if a primetime wildfire between the Demilitarized Zone and the American Embassy in Saigon. The so-called Street Without Joy, north of Hue, near where author Bernard Fall was killed. ![]()
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