to shift the burden to the south vietnamese. north vietnam. promised that american ground troops would no longer be involved in the sense of combat. this is richard boyle firebase pace. from the cambodian border sitting in a bunker not a dozen from the first captives a lot of people are kind of wondering if anybody back in the world knows that we're out here. like. two batteries or a tourist posters in all grocery with nobody we don't even exist. we just need a miracle ships we're not supposed to be in combat that's why the american army did nine hundred that they were there you know that far as america was before this i got there were no american troops on the border. it would be funny how democracy. why no or. why you go back home the north vietnamese were had they had two regiments to crack regiments totally surrounding the fire base it's plain so it's nice to know. that soon as we start going out there will be sitting ducks you know the best thing for order. to try to hire hired man to go on thursday just set us on the captain crowed in or

to shift the burden of the south vietnamese. north vietnam. promised that american ground troops would no longer be involved in offensive combat. this is richard boyle firebase pace bunch of kilometers from the cambodian border sitting in a bunker but it doesn't run the first chapter a lot of people kind of wonder if anybody back in the world knows that we're on to . like. two batteries or a tourist posters here and on groceries like nobody we don't even exist. we just need. troops we're not supposed to be in combat that's why the american army did nine hundred that they were there you know that far as america was before this i got there weren't american troops on the border isn't going. to be fighting a democracy. why no are you all right you go back home the north vietnamese were had they had two regiments to crack regiments stoli surrounding the fire base it's plain something in the series we start going out there will be sitting ducks you know that's the thing about order think he's. going to try to hire a hired man they don't have to go o

there are more problems to winding down the vietnam war than just holding the enemy and moving south vietnamese troops into the line one unforeseen problem is trying to keep up the morale of g.i.'s who know they're going on but not soon enough it has produced plenty grit insubordination shooting of officers by their own men and a definite practice called fragging of the dual purpose in my mind was he did to get me or intimidate and myself and all others in authority in the company and battalion sergeant gene tenley is saying that some of his own men tried to maim or kill him but it's not an isolated incident since then one officer has been killed another wounded at this base and there have been dozens of similar incidents all across south vietnam because the fragmentation grenade is often the weapon used the violent attacks on authority have come to be known as fragging and many g.i.'s talk openly about fragging and the military countermeasures seen more than one big group meeting where. actually all they talk about is fragment as we call pigs. by picture talking about your senior enlisted men

destroyers had been accompanied the south vietnamese parties who were reading the north vietnamese territories and was all hush, hush of course we were all supposed to do that. so the boats cannot and challenged the destroyers who were doing that but they didn't firearm them and win the destroyer's took hostile action against the boats the reagan, they went back. the next like a winner was the destroyers, the mattocks and foot herger chollet started firing and that is when johnson said those boys didn't know they were shooting at. there is no evidence the fighting at anything, but since the united states was involved in the illicit activities the night before which couldn't be discussed the whole thing turned it was a fraud and johnson knew it was a fraud which he used to get a blank check from incompliant congress. they pass the tonkin gulf resolution, to votes in the senate against earnest greeting, and i used to know more, so i went to his office to congratulate him right after against the tonkin gulf resolution and he said two things that stayed with me, however they are not in the book, t

the south vietnamese said so. but i also want to tell you the north vietnamese said so. the j-2 classified, top secret document out of hanoi. that shouldn't surprise you. there were leaks all over the place. they knew everything we did, the south seat ma news now. this is what the media had to say about the uprising between '67 and '69. they committed an error in strategy and launch these o for examplive -- offensives without careful preparations. was very successful in the pacification of the mekong river. the chief of of staff had this to say in 1991: what sets the record is it not only totally dominated the enemy but in a period of -- this book categorizes what i've been telling you about. of it's an interesting read of how to fight a guerrilla war in the delta, and if you have any questions, we'll answer them now. [applause] >> any questions? >> my husband was in the delta, he did 180 assaults and he did the marine thing as well. he loved his tiger scouts, and my question is he's always had, wanted to be, to find out what the fate of the tiger scouts is. did the ninth

point by then america had over a half a million troops in south vietnam during the lunar new year holiday called tet the enemy the north vietnamese and national liberation front our names launched an offensive that overran the entire country before being pushed back the tet offensive revealed that the enemy had widespread support from the vietnamese people and america was mired in a war it couldn't win and with soldiers beginning to question the war in the wake of the tet offensive the thousands began going to a wall or absent without leave many found their way to san francisco where series of events brought the emerging g.i. antiwar movement onto the national stage. we joined together. in my two sixty eight we took sanctuary in a church and change ourselves for ministers. we'll simply call the press and said to them we're not going to do it we were refusing orders and in fact we're resigning from the military come and get it. the fact that it took them three days to decide how to deal with this tactically great. had nothing to lose. and they had no idea what was going to come and that's a free place it's a really free place you

south vietnam. that didn't work out. the vietnamesether. >> as smarty pants as we all try to be, we have no idea. this is a situation where you have social media thrown in there. a country uniting in ways we have never seen before. you have to wonder what is going to happen. we don't know. the administration didn't know. that's why we have had these days of back and forth. and what to we say? >> thank you for what you're doing, al jazeera. people say they fanned the flames here by bringing the fact that democracy is not in existence and that people are being suppressed. that's what we need. we need more communication in the world. it's not al jazeera's fault that mubarak is under siege now. >> we in the media tend to think that the media drives the world. i have a feeling this has been going on regardless of the media. >> the world doesn't know what is happening everywhere else. that's what the media does. >> we only have 30 seconds. quick question for you. the new vice president, omar suleiman, is his appointment going to satisfy the

vietnamese who you couldn't eat anywhere else in the country. they weren't allowed to travel. in this many cases all these socialist governments and liberation movements, the anc from south africa, nelson mandela's organization all had offices at the u.n. and it was the only place that you could meet them. so i had this incredible opportunity to spend years at the u.n. writing about developments in the east rib ration movements, india's struggles, contradictions of u.s. policy, what the u.s. was doing wrong in those areas. but i was doing it at the u.n. and it was during that time that i started looking a little bit for the first time at the united nations. and it was at the time of the iraqi invasion of kuwait in 1990, in that summer which was at the same time as the end of the cold war. the soviet union was collapsing. the u.s. made a decision, in my view, based on a cold war analysis. not based on the fact that kuwait had been invaded and that iraq had violated international law. and when i watched that happen, one of the things i was looking at was how the united states was using the u.n. itself as an instrument, as a tool in its own foreign policy. and i started wri

south bay, and the new head coach for forty- niners. >> henry joins us with a preview of what's coming up. good morning henry. >> were going to be talking about vietnamesetion it to burn my vacation back with me. we're going to talk with the chef and he's going to tell us about what makes these cuisines special and they tell you how a bunch of restaurants will offer special deals that's coming up on kron 4 news weekend. live from the bay area's new station this is the kron 4 morning news. >> good morning everybody it's 8:00 we're back with top stories were working on. the forty-niners have a new head coach jim harbaugh moving from the college to nfl. it will tell you why he was tapped to lead the niners back to the playoffs. well that's good enough. >> san francisco also has an interim mayor his name is ed lee will tell you why city leaders think that he is ready for the job as outgoing mayor newsome believes for sacramento. >> did you feel it? the new year's kicks off with one of the hugest earthquakes we felt in months. >> instead of the good side to conceive of you from mount tam on the left in a few of the city skyline sort off on the right. >> one

. >>> south bay city will welcome a new vice mayor today, san jose city councilwoman sworn into city hall this evening. the first vietnameseeady hard at work, hosting a meeting last week to help police fight crime, seven homicides in first three weeks ch 2011 and many people on the east part of san jose do not feel safe, one man says if it doesn't get better in the next few months he may move his family. >> i used to see a lot of police officers here and i feel safe, i mean i can come outside here with my kid, play, but i'm going to think about it right now because it's kind of unsafe for my kids. >> san jose police say budget cuts have cut their ability to pra toll the area for violent crime. more local news in half an hour, "today" returns in about a minute. switching to progressive could mean hundreds more in your wallet year after year. feed me! saving you money -- now, that's progressive. call or click today. >>> from nbc news, this is "today" with kathie lee gifford and hoda coffey. li from studio 1 a in rockefeller plaza. >> hi, everybody. it's january 25, and nobody expected this outside today. it was supposed to c