Lo Khac Tam

Lo Khac Tam is a former Vietnamese lieutenant general who fought for the army of North Vietnam during the Vietnam War.

War years

In 1965, Lo Khac Tam was a second lieutenant in the North Vietnamese army, and led a platoon of soldiers down the Ho Chi Minh Trail to the Ia Drang Valley. Tam was one of the first 100 graduates of the North Vietnamese military academy who volunteered to lead soldiers into South Vietnam.

Tam and his fellow soldiers arrived in the Chu Pong mountains. Tam lamented the pain caused by the war: "The war was so horribly brutal. I don’t have words to describe it. How can we ever explain to the younger generation the price paid?"