the viet cong accepted the loss of factories.ous destruction in the country. >> we think they are winning. now, if we think they're winning, you can imagine what they think. >> nif they win it, why would they want to talk? >> lbj's worse fears about vietnam come to fruition in june of 1965 when general wes morland requested 150,000 ground troops. and he spends the next six weeks agonizing on what will become the most pivotal decision of his administration. >> you have lbj, who cares deeply. the problem was he campaigned in being the peace candidate, the one who wouldn't send american boys 9,000 to 10,000 miles away to fight a war that south vietnamese boys ought to be fighting. >> westmoreland wants more men. >> where do you stop? >> you don't. you either get out or you get in. >> there were those in his administration telling him, if you let vietnam fall to the communists, other nations in the region could fall like dominos. and it would embolden the soviet union and the people's republic of china. >> i don't want to pull down t

by the viet cong and what we were doing there was the crew chief of that helicopter needed help. we had to go man to man until we found the two american advisors. and recovered their bodies and brought them back to the helicopter and brought him home. and that was our our that's the only reason that guy let us on that helicopter was he needed help carrying the bodies? and and i i it was a shock. it was a total shock. and i you know and to that moment. my knowledge of war was limited to john wayne movies for god's sakes. but now i saw the reality of it. i saw 200 did vietnamese. and i saw two dead americans and i looked at their faces and i carried their bodies. and i looked at them all the way back to that base on that helicopter, and they didn't look like john wayne to me. and you know in the movies you did you get up after the turn the camera off and you're okay, but not in a war. still did and we got back to that that town that base. and it was getting near dark. and i already told me he said look. they're so scared up here that all the americans leave at night and fly back to

by the viet cong and what we were doing there was the crew chief of that helicopter needed help. we had to go man to man until we found the two american advisors. and recovered their bodies and brought them back to the helicopter and brought him home. and that was our our that's the only reason that guy let us on that helicopter was he needed help carrying the bodies? and and i i it was a shock. was a total shock. and i you know and to that moment. my knowledge of war was limited to john wayne movies for god's sakes. but now i saw the reality of it. i saw 200 did vietnamese. and i saw two dead americans and i looked at their faces and i carried their bodies. and i looked at them all the way back to that base on that helicopter, and they didn't look like john wayne to me. and you know in the movies you did you get up after the turn the camera off and you're okay, but not in a war. still did and we got back to that that town that base. and it was getting near dark. and i'll read told me he said look. they're so scared up here that all the americans leave at night and fly back to da