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Many Americans against a bombing halt - Aug 19, 1968 - HISTORY.com

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A Harris survey indicates that 61 percent of those polled are against calling a halt to the bombing in Vietnam. President Johnson, in a major speech at the Veterans of Foreign Wars convention in Detroit, challenged Hanoi to respond to the limitations of the bombing campaign that he had announced in March. But he refused to curtail other military activities in Southeast Asia, saying that, “there are some among us who appear to be searching for a formula which would get us out of Vietnam and Asia on any terms, leaving the people of South Vietnam and Laos and Thailand… to an uncertain fate.”

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CWO3 Dennis M.

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I was on USS Kearsarge CVS-33 at this time and most likely on Yankee Station in North Vietnam or at least in the Tonkin Gulf Yacht club area. News was always late getting to us back in the day, but I remember when that news reached us, it did cause some concern and discussion among the men on board as many of us had friends and family in country and were concerned a bombing halt would be used by North Vietnam to advance on the South and to use this bombing halt to launch more attacks on the 7th fleet in the Gulf.

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PO2 Richard C.

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I was on the USS Dubuque LPD-8 just off the Cua Viet River during the same time. We were doing amphib ops much of the time, and many of the crew and troops coming aboard for a couple of days R&R had many of the same concerns.

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