American Casualties Are Taking Place All Over the Country

There's no significant defeat so it's just you know Americans keep fighting but as the North Vietnamese keep throwing troops at them there's going to be American losses. The Joint Chiefs of Staff really on recognize this and said you know the North Vietnamese can just keep sending down huge numbers of people  no matter how many will kill they'll send some war. McNamara and Johnson consistently turn up against putting U.S. troops into Laos to block the Ho Chi Minh Trail which is the north-south infiltration route that is used to send troops and material from north to south.