Some volunteered to go to Vietnam. But many of the soldiers ... Then, dog-tired from marching through the jungle all day with 50-pound packs, the soldiers faced the prospect of some general ...

the American military began a policy of sending soldiers into the jungle and villages of Vietnam to ‘take the war to the enemy’. This often meant soldiers were easy targets for Vietcong ...

Meanwhile, millions of American military men and women served honorably ... In fall of 1967 in a jungle in Vietnam, a Viet Cong ambush nearly wiped out an American battalion.