“From the jungles of Vietnam “
We did just fine there. What we lost to were the hippies, liberals, and Walter Cronkite claiming “The war is lost” after the Tet of ‘68 when actually the viet Cong got demolished during Tet and we took significant advances.
We won abroad, we lost at home.
I was watching a CBS special on youtube awhile ago done right after the La Drang valley battle - our first major battle. (We Were Soldiers once and Young).
They talked about the battle, the historic nature of the helicopters, our victory, and our casualties. And at that end it had some comment like “It remains to be seen how the mothers and fathers and the American public will react to the growing numbers of dead and wounded of its young men in this faraway country.” I don’t recall the exact wording, but it was something very defeatist like this. I was only six at the time, and thought the anti-war press only happened after awhile - not after the first battle!