Reply #20: But I really think it was a class war as well. [View All]

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I honestly knew no families who sent kids over there. No neighbors or school friends. And none of my cousins or other relatives went either. I had a roommate in college whose brother died in 72 in Vietnam. His was the first death that touched me.

I am a couple years older than Cindy. I turned 19 the year Nixon resigned. So kids close to my age were there. My husband was drafted when he quit school. He didn't go to Vietnam, but he was the only one in his boot camp group that did not go over there. He was also the only one in his group of friends who got drafted.