Comment on Anon describes past
RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 1 week ago
The 60s? Not eligible for a war?
Are we just rewriting history to ignore Vietnam?
AtariDump@lemmy.world 1 week ago
slaacaa@lemmy.world 1 week ago
leftzero@lemmynsfw.com 1 week ago
Bone spurs.
BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee 1 week ago
all these pussies breaking ankles and citing bone spurs know a real man shits his pants right in front of the officer
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
found Ted Nugent’s lemmy account
morrowind@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
What % of the population actually fought in the war?
booly@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Page 45 of this PDF has a good chart. It shows that about 26.8 million men were draft eligible in that generation, and about 8.7 million enlisted, 2.2 million were drafted, and 16.0 million never served, including about 570,000 apparent draft dodgers.
About 2.1 million actually went to Vietnam, and about 1.55 million were in combat roles in Vietnam. 51,000 were killed.
So roughly:
- 41% of that generation of men were in the military
- 8% of that generation went to Vietnam
- 6% of that generation fought in Vietnam
- About 0.2% of that generation died in Vietnam
Blackmist@feddit.uk 1 week ago
I guess that depends how poor and black they were.
ilega_dh@feddit.nl 1 week ago
Not enough to win it
echodot@feddit.uk 1 week ago
Not everyone in the world is an American of course.
Machinist@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Picking up hitchhikers to Woodstock during the summer of '69 kind of narrows it down unless op was one of those maple syrup types.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 week ago
SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Oh woops i broke my ankle and an anti war doctor said I’ll never walk again.
Oh woops I’m on extended vacation in Canada.
vvilld@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
If you were not upper-middle class (or higher) and white, these really weren’t realistic options to avoid the draft.
SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Im continuing the idealistic boomer life we are talking about in this thread