User:Star.ntd

Nguyễn Tấn Đạt is the capital city of Bến Tre Province, in the Mekong Delta area of southern Vietnam. The city covers an area of 65.75 km2 and has a population of 143,639 as of 2009. Bến Tre is 85 istory

History
7.

Vietnam War
A famous quote from the Vietnam War was a statement attributed to an unnamed U.S. officer by AP correspondent Peter Arnett in his writing about Bến Tre city on 7 February 1968:

The quote became distorted in subsequent publications, eventually becoming the more familiar, "We had to destroy the village in order to save it." Victor Davis Hanson, writing for the conservative National Review Online, has called into question the accuracy of the original quote and its source.

Arnett never completely revealed his source, but he did say that it came from one of the four officers he interviewed that day. United States Army Major Phil Cannella, the senior officer present at Bến Tre, suggested that the quote might have been a distortion of something he had said to Arnett. At the time, The New Republic attributed the quote to U.S. Air Force Major Chester L. Brown.

In Walter Cronkite's 1971 book, Eye on the World, Arnett re-asserted that the quote was something "one American major said to me in a moment of revelation." However, American veteran Captain Michael D. Miller wrote in 2006 that he heard the comment being made by a Major Booris at a press briefing.

Notable people

 * Sister Chan Khong - Nun who has worked closely with Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh for more than fifty years

Schools

 * Ben Tre High School for the Gifted