Word: hues
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been spent in vain? The government of Nguyen Van Thieu was proving much weaker than had been thought, and the fast fallback of his forces approached an all-out rout. Obviously, U.S. intelligence about Thieu and his powers had been grievously faulty. First, the former imperial capital of Hue fell to the Communists; then so did five more provinces, bringing the total under their control to 13 (out of 44). But the real shocker was the swiftness of the fall of Danang, South Viet Nam's second largest city and the onetime center of U.S. Marine operations in Viet...
...their lands; indeed, in the months just after the Paris Peace Agreement, Saigon subjected Viet Cong-held areas to frequent air raids. Others, especially merchants or landowners, may have feared that the Communists would confiscate their property or worse, arrest them as "exploiters of the people." Residents of Hue in particular have not forgotten the mass executions that took place when the Communists controlled the city during the 1968 Tet offensive. Most of the refugees simply seemed to be afraid of the Communists-and in some areas of the Central Highlands, of Montagnard rebels...
...original base headquarters near Saigon's Tan Son Nhut airport. Thieu felt it necessary to beef up the defense of the capital, just in case the Communists decided to concentrate their forces on Saigon itself. The transfer of the troops sent a shock wave through the streets of Hue. Without a government order to do so, the mayor advised his people "to leave as quickly as possible...
...Honda and went up to the top. There were no soldiers or police organizing things. A bunch of troops had left their trucks and were eating lunch. A couple of beautiful Vietnamese girls were singing and talking to them. Well, I figured we would never get to Hue, so I sort of started directing traffic. Things started moving and a couple of young MPs came and took over...
...friend of mine got blown apart in Hue," said an Army major last week, sipping coffee in a Pentagon cafeteria. "He was in charge of a long-range artillery unit. And now you see the people just walking away from Hué. You don't say to yourself, 'He died for nothing.' But you ask: 'For what?' What have we got after nine years? Twenty-twenty hindsight is always preferable, but we probably did the best we could at the time. But still you ask yourself: 'Was it worth it?' There is just...