Transcription: Acting on the belief that a communist government in South Vietnam would lead to a communist takeover of Southeast Asia, the United States slowly became more involved in the conflict there. By 1968, United States troops numbered more than half a million. American tactics included search and destroy missions on the ground, depoliations, and heavy bombing of North Vietnam to disable and dishearten the enemy. It did not work. The Vietnam War was a humiliating political defeat for the United States. This black granite wall in Washington, D.C. memorializes the more than 58,000 Americans who died the ...
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