What Was The Turning Point In The Vietnam War

Imagine saving hundreds of people in a crucial battle, not get any recognition for it, and having to go back and sleep in a rundown old building. Many of soldiers went through this exact thing during the Vietnam war. The Chu Lai battle was a very dangerous war that lots of soldiers died in. Some soldiers got rewarded for their actions, many did not. After fighting, they had to go back to their terrible living conditions known as home. When it comes to the Vietnam war one needs to remember, the important battles fought, the medals earned, and how men lived in order to fully understand how hard war was.
The battle at Chu Lai was one of the first wins for the US Marines against the Viet Cong and will be remembered as a turning point in the war. Gregg Frikken was a veteran that fought in this battle. Frikken remembered, “On April 12th... we landed on the beach at Chu Lai, South Vietnam. We’re out in the 196 Light Infantry Brigade task force ord. The Viet Cong figured, with the Marines gone, they were gonna take Chu Lai, and they didn’t take it cuz it was a day and night battle. I was there 91 days in combat. I was in 196 Light Infantry Brigade, 23rd Regiment.“ (Frikken). This win is important to
Gregg Frikken had lived in a Tent City and said how hard and bad it was. Fricken recalled, “Pallet floors, 25-year old C-rations out in the field and at the ammo dump, made in Detroit, 1942. And let me see, you had 50-gallon drums for the showers, and you stunk as well when you came back out as when you went in. But we had no perks.“ (Frikken). The majority of people would think that soldiers would at least get to live in conditions with clean air and space, but in reality they lived in waste lands that caused many soldiers to get ill and die from disease. Although it is true that some tent cities were cleaner than