Civilians with post active duty service who actually ended up walking around inside the Nam were not credited with in-country service ~ (even though technically they were still Reservists).
There are even more bizarre complexities involving Air National Guard folks.
I'd raise issue with the "Census Question" ~ frankly, I don't recall any such question, and by now I'd been able to answer it one way or the other THREE DIFFERENT TIMES.
It could be one of their statistical sample surveys ~ and they're always subject to dispute.
Unless someone can come up with the exact question as shown on an official Census form I'm not willing to accept the premise that 9 million or so people lied about it.
This 2.7 million number is the last one we’ve been fed,,,
When I got out I went to work for the local rag it was 8 million(’69).
Then 7,,,then 5,,,then 4,,,then 3 ,,, over the years,,,
I would like to see the number that was followed by
Project Pace...