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Tet Offensive
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Do you remember the Tet Offensive?† (source)

He was a Vietnam vet who had lost a leg in the Tet offensive.† (source) Stephen King, Cujo, 1981

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Tet Offensive
massive 1968 attack by North Vietnam on South Vietnam during the lunar new year (Tet); although the attack failed in its objectives and resulted in crippling casualties, the magnitude of the attack convinced the American public that the South could not win the war

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