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In August 1964, a ghost signal over the Pacific changed everything. When President Johnson discovers that the second attack in the Gulf of Tonkin never happened, he halts America's rush to war. What follows is a radically different Vietnam era—one without a full-scale U.S. invasion, without 58,000 American dead, and without the scars that taught a nation caution. But in this quieter world, something else is lost: the lesson.
Delta-49, Tonkin Radio Silence, explores how a war avoided ripples forward through generations—reshaping protest, power, and the next time America reaches for its guns.
In August 1964, a ghost signal over the Pacific changed everything. When President Johnson discovers that the second attack in the Gulf of Tonkin never happened, he halts America's rush to war. What follows is a radically different Vietnam era—one without a full-scale U.S. invasion, without 58,000 American dead, and without the scars that taught a nation caution. But in this quieter world, something else is lost: the lesson.
Delta-49, Tonkin Radio Silence, explores how a war avoided ripples forward through generations—reshaping protest, power, and the next time America reaches for its guns.