American Valor Quarterly Issue 6 - Spring/Summer 2009 | Page 33

The Lost Battalion of Tet
A Reflection
By Lt. Colonel Charles A. Krohn, USA (Ret)
We now think of Tet ’68 as the turning point of the war in
Vietnam. Until January 1968, optimism expressed by senior military
leadership in Saigon was generally accepted uncritically, both at
home and in the foxholes. Victory may not be just around the
corner, we were told, but the trend lines pointed upward. And so
it seemed.
After Tet, official procla