[Chinstrap61a]

"It seems you fell for it too, born too late to be involved in starting the Vietnam war the boomers lost 31,337 men in combat in Vietnam, while your generation lost 14,913 in combat there, I have to assume that the bulk of the 10,000 non combat deaths in Vietnam were mostly boomers as well. When boomers have 9.4 million veterans, almost 40,000 dead in Vietnam and suffering casualties in every conflict since then, including our current wars, you should not be under the impression that Vietnam was not their war as far as the bulk of the fighting and dying goes."

'Spose you could translate this into English for me?

1. How do you make your determination that we Baby Boomers were too young to have been in on the start of the war? I was 20 in 1966 and a whole bunch of my fellow Marines that were my age or younger were in country at the start of the American conventional force involvement.

2. What does "you should not be under the impression that Vietnam was not their war as far as the bulk of the fighting and dying goes."mean? I was right in the middle of that fighting and dying, so I should know who was there..if there was anybody but Boomers except some of our older NCOs and officers, who were they?

[ansel12]

I thought that you were saying that you were of John McCain’s generation, but I seem to have misunderstood you.

On the thing about the start of the war boomers were not in on that, in this case you misunderstood my post, here is the quote.

“born too late to be involved in starting the Vietnam war “