Sitting peacefully amid us in the Pacific Northwest is one of the defining symbols of a trigger-point to America’s involvement in Vietnam in the 1960s and '70s.

The Vietnam War was not the United States' bloodiest or ... 1964 when North Vietnamese patrol boats fired on a US ship in the Gulf of Tonkin. The US Congress then passed, with only two dissenting ...

In August 1964, North Vietnamese patrol boats attacked US vessels in the ... President Johnson now had effective permission to pursue full war in Vietnam. 8 March 1965, 3500 US marines landed ...