[Restorer]

The article is correct that American military morale declined dramatically towards the end of the war.

Among other things, who wants to be the last soldier to die in a lost war?

There was also a huge drug problem in the military during this period.

[wvobiwan]

Keep that Kerry propaganda were it belongs, in the dust bin of history.

"The last man to die for a mistake" is a classic Kerry post-vietnam quote. The Vietnam war was WON by 1968, Kerry and Fonda, with the collusion of foreign intelligence and communist spies, turned victory into defeat by convincing the US we couldn't win the war, that it was a mistake.

It wasn't a mistake to the estimated 2 million southeast Asians who died in communist purges after the US left.

[tongue-tied]

I'd have to ask some of our folks that were there for clarification, but could it be that was because:
1) Drafted soldiers didn't want to be there?
2) The media was in their heyday in that they were able to provide losing scenarios continuously, with no counter?
3) The druggies prevalent in our society were drafted, thus carried their own problems with them as they deployed?
4) (Sorry) Jane Fonda was then considered hot?

[cowboyway]

The article is correct that American military morale declined dramatically towards the end of the war.

That carried over through the 70's.

[Valin]

Well put.