He said. "It became necessary to destroy the city to save it." So. Ben Tre. a city of 35.000 population in the Mekong Delta. following the time that it had been occupied by the VC was destroyed methodically by American bombs. napalm. shells. and rockets. More than 10.000 civilianswomen. children. and menwere killed. including some thousands of refugees who had fled to the city for safety. Nobody knows how many thousands. because entire families were permanently buried in the rubble. "It became necessary to destroy the city to save it." This was a shameful episode in the history of the Armed Forces and of our country. When President Eisenhower left the White House we had only 685 military advisers in all South Vietnam.
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