Here are the myths debunked in the article:
Myth: Common belief is that most Vietnam veterans were drafted.
Myth: The media have reported that suicides among Vietnam veterans range from 50,000 to 100,000 – 6 to 11 times the non-Vietnam veteran population.
Myth: Common belief is that a disproportionate number of blacks were killed in the Vietnam War.
Myth: Common belief is that the war was fought largely by the poor and uneducated.
Myth: The common belief is the average age of an infantryman fighting in Vietnam was 19.
Myth: The common belief is that the domino theory was proved false.
Myth: The common belief is that the fighting in Vietnam was not as intense as in World War II.
Myth: Kim Phuc, the little nine year old Vietnamese girl running naked from the napalm strike near Trang Bang on 8 June 1972 (shown a million times on American television) was burned by Americans bombing Trang Bang.
Myth: The United States lost the war in Vietnam.
the scum left in this country got more mileage out of that war than any other thing i can think of. Take Kent State...to this day, they treat it as some scared event...they dont tell the fact that a majority of the country approved of the action taken there....also, the nation turned against the war, because leadership wouldn’t win the damn thing...
“Myth: The common belief is that the domino theory was proved false.”
How many countries fell victim to communist revolution, sponsored by Russia/China/Cuba after the Viet Nam war?