The War at Home
12 min readJan 26, 2021
It was 1964 and I was coming of age during the height of the Vietnam War. In August, Congress had passed the…
It was 1964 and I was coming of age during the height of the Vietnam War. In August, Congress had passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, giving then President Lyndon Johnson broad authority to step up American military presence. He promptly deployed combat units for the first time and increased troop levels to more than 180,00…
