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Hey Farmer- basic history

mikeya02

1962: The number of US military advisors increased from 700 to 12,000

1963: President Diem was killed in a military coup
15,000 US military advisors were in South Vietnam

1964: the Gulf of Tonkin incident; Congress passed the ‘Gulf of Tonkin
Resolution’; America bombs targets in North Vietnam; NLF attacked US air bases

1965: ‘Operation Rolling Thunder’ started; first US combat troops were sent to Vietnam in March; by the end of the year there were 200,000 US troops there; first major conventional clash between USA and NVA at Ia Drang

1966: 400,000 US troops were in Vietnam

1967: 490,000 US troops in Vietnam; Nguyen Van Thieu became President of South Vietnam

1968: Tet Offensive; demonstrations against the war started in America; My Lai massacre; peace talks began in Paris; 540,000 US troops in
Vietnam; anti-Vietnam War riots in Chicago (August)

1969: Nixon ordered the secret bombing of Cambodia; ‘Vietnamization’
started; Nixon announced the start of US troop withdrawals; Ho Chi
Minh died; 480,000 US troops in Vietnam; My Lai massacre made
public in November

Given that JFK was dead, when LBJ sent in the military, what was JFK"S "fiasco" What does John Wayne have to do with anything?
Sorry Art, Canadian blowhards like yourself are pretty hard to take.