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Việt Cộng
A series of largely-unsuccessful coordinated North Vietnamese and Việt Cộng attacks against South Việt Nam in January, 1968, during the Vietnamese New Year (Tết). Thi’s family locks itself inside in Sài Gòn during the fighting, which breaks out just weeks after the birth of her sister Bích.
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Tết Offensive Term Timeline in The Best We Could Do
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...Mercy,” to whom they prayed. Bích is born in 1968, two weeks before the Tết Offensive, during which the family locks itself inside with the radio, to avoid the war on...
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