This post was updated on July 25, 2010. NEWS FLASH! WHEAT-FREE BULGUR; GLUTEN-FREE BULGUR AND COUSCOUS SUBSTITITES (see end of this post!). This time of the year almost always keep a grain salad on hand for snacking.Grain salads are hearty, filling, nutritious, and, the way I make them, low in fat.rom what I've read, it can be used just like wheat bulgur. If you must eat gluten-free, you can substitute millet or quinoa for bulgur and couscous. This recipe from Whole Foods explains how to cook millet, especially for a salad. Here's how to cook quinoa.
The main impact of Tet was to harden US civilians' resolve against the war. This is because Tet, on the ground, was an absolute disaster for the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese. We had been led to believe the Vietnamese couldn't launch an offensive like this, and when it happened it shocked the Americans.
About 400 Americans were killed by hostile action in the week the Tet offensive began, more than in any previous week of the war. Another 400 were killed the next week. But worse was to come. The first wave of Tet attacks had been aimed mostly at the towns and cities, which meant mostly at the forces of the South Vietnamese government.