Our fighting men were superb in Vietnam, victory was denied by the old WWII generation, playing some sort of weird political game for a decade of us defeating the Communists on the battlefield.
As far as the draft, Vietnam was fought overwhelmingly by volunteers, just the opposite of WWII which was a war fought by draftees.
Maybe not fought overwhelmingly by volunteers but the names on the wall are overwhelmingly those of enlistees. I can’t remember the exact percentage but it is so.
One was 25-26 times more likely to die as a company-grade officer or an E-6 as a 19 year old draftee.
I also recall that the highest percentage of combat deaths, regardless of race, came from the states of the old Confederacy. I think you could also throw West Virginia in there (must be something in the water there that makes them want to fight.)(Then, again, it might be so many Scotch-Irish from there.)
There are so many misconceptions about the demographics of those who fought and died there that have been perpetuated by the left that have survived to this day.
Do you think what happened during the Korean War, when 250,000 chinese joined the party, had anything to do with how the vietnam war was later fought?