All of the following statements regarding the 1968 Tet offensive are true EXCEPT
A. it began on a Vietnamese holiday.
B. it saw the communists fighting on the grounds of the American embassy in Saigon.
C. it saw American troops inflict enormous casualties on the communists.
D. it suggested to the American public something of the brutality of the fighting in Vietnam.
E. it saw Saigon fall to the communists.