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[-] RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 109 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The 60s? Don't have to fight in a war?

Are we just rewriting history to ignore Vietnam?

[-] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 47 points 2 months 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 7 points 2 months 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 9 points 2 months ago

Im continuing the idealistic boomer life we are talking about in this thread

[-] leftzero@lemmynsfw.com 19 points 2 months ago
[-] BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee 18 points 2 months 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 5 points 2 months ago

found Ted Nugent's lemmy account

[-] morrowind@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 months ago

What % of the population actually fought in the war?

[-] booly@sh.itjust.works 15 points 2 months 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 10 points 2 months ago

I guess that depends how poor and black they were.

[-] ilega_dh@feddit.nl 8 points 2 months ago

Not enough to win it

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 8 points 2 months ago

Not everyone in the world is an American of course.

[-] Machinist@lemmy.world 34 points 2 months 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 6 points 2 months ago

Don't mind me, just thinking about how peaceful Americans were between 1949 and 1965

Yeah north korea what an amazing place to live

do you have an intellectual disability????

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago
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