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Presedent Kennedy tells America that only a few generations have the privalige to be the great deffenders of freedom.
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US first major combat opperation
http://www.datesandevents.org/events-timelines/06-vietnam-war-timeline.htm -
US military advisors are authorized to fire, if fired upon.
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Two South Vietnamese pilots bomb Diem's presidential palace. Diem escapes.
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US attempt to clear vegitation to prevent ambuses from the viet cong and to open up trails that they using with agent orange.
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Hoped to group the pesent population into fortified villages to keep them away from viet cong influnce
http://www.shmoop.com/vietnam-war/timeline.html
