“Prior to Ap Bac, the Kennedy administration had succeeded in preventing the American public from being more than vaguely conscious that the country was involved in a war in a place called Vietnam.”

—  George S. Patton IV

Source: The Fighting Pattons (1997) by Brian M. Sobel, p. 101

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