The Washington Post has just published an Op Ed piece I wrote concerning the arbitrary choice of March 1965 as the start of the Vietnam War – when 3,500 Marines landed in Da Nang. We already had 23,000 so-called ‘advisers’ in Vietnam before that date. Until we acknowledge how the conflict really started, we can’t come to terms with the origins or our nation’s involvement.
US military personnel in South Vietnam, August 1963 (AP Photo)