To the Vietnam Vets what do you think today

[madokie]

Bless All Veterans for they have done their duty.

[Glorfindel]

1. I'm a Vietnam vet, I didn't volunteer, and I knew the war was a joke...

I got drafted, and with a hero of the Korean War as an older brother, knew I had to go or my family would never, ever accept me again. I have no idea how to respond to your poll.

[Earth_First]

2. Question: what is the basis or reasoning of this poll?

I'm not calling you out, but the answer for the majority seems pretty obvious to me.

[ThomWV]

3. I Could Not Have Not Gone

You don't understand at all. Every minute before sometime in 1968 was another era. There are some of us who were born just an inch on the other side of the divide. For us not to have served would have been unthinkable. You see, what so many people don't recall as that when the war in Viet Nam was at its real zenith, around mid '67 or os peole were just starting to head to Canada (God bless the Canadians). To be sure the Guard units were full to the brim and to be equally sure unless you had strong family money and connections you were not going to get in - not that it ever occured to me to try.

But in the end, and 3 tours in the High Lands later, I got out and came home. Would I do it again? Yes. But now I know the outcome, I lived.

[Glorfindel]

4. You're exactly right...

I was in Vietnam Dec 66 to Dec 67. Everything changed in 1968.