To: Morgana
68 is a young Vietnam Vet.
2 posted on
04/02/2024 7:28:49 PM PDT by
EvilCapitalist
(Pets are no substitute for children)
To: EvilCapitalist
I was thinking that too. He must have been the very last unit in.
4 posted on
04/02/2024 7:30:31 PM PDT by
Morgana
( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
To: EvilCapitalist
Would have been 72 this year.
To: EvilCapitalist
He also had post-traumatic stress disorder and health issues from Agent Orange exposure during combat in Vietnam.
It sounds like he lied about his service record, perhaps to get disability payments. The US completed its withdrawal from Vietnam in 1973, when the veteran was 17 years old.
To: EvilCapitalist
7 posted on
04/02/2024 7:36:53 PM PDT by
stylin19a
(When in a bikini,women show 90% of their body. men are so polite they only look at the covered parts)
To: EvilCapitalist
He was 68 when he was assaulted. That was in February of 2020. He died six months later.
The headline writer could have done a better job.
11 posted on
04/02/2024 7:45:17 PM PDT by
Leaning Right
(The steal is real.)
To: EvilCapitalist
Depending on the duty, the “era” went pretty deep into the 70’s.
21 posted on
04/02/2024 7:53:44 PM PDT by
Vermont Lt
(Don’t vote for anyone over 70 years old. Get rid of the geriatric politicians.)
To: EvilCapitalist
Technically our involvement in Vietnam didn’t end until 1975. I think...
23 posted on
04/02/2024 8:02:52 PM PDT by
dragnet2
(Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
To: EvilCapitalist
Not a Vietnam vet. Too young by a year.
26 posted on
04/02/2024 8:13:26 PM PDT by
mfish13
(Elections have Consequences.)
To: EvilCapitalist
Yes, it is. I am 69 and I am about a year too young to have been in Vietnam even if my parents had signed off to let me enlist at 17. It’s close, I might have squeaked in on one of the last inbound flights if I had done that.
31 posted on
04/02/2024 8:34:43 PM PDT by
TigersEye
(Our Republic is under seige by globalist Marxists. Hold fast!)
To: EvilCapitalist
“68 is a young Vietnam Vet.”
I was just thinking that.
Maybe he went in at 17 and was a drop out. The draft ended in ‘73(?)... my number was drawn that January and I had 2 years before induction. Then it was over I think in ‘74. I went in anyway in early 76 because jobs were drying up, I had just turned 21 and the services were having a hard time meeting quotas.
50 posted on
04/02/2024 11:08:28 PM PDT by
Clutch Martin
("The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right." )
To: EvilCapitalist
Born a year before me and I was last year to register
Something amiss with headline
53 posted on
04/02/2024 11:30:25 PM PDT by
wardaddy
(. A disease in the public mind btw Alina Habba is fine as grits)
To: EvilCapitalist
54 posted on
04/03/2024 12:36:35 AM PDT by
Eagles6
(Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual.)
To: EvilCapitalist
58 posted on
04/03/2024 4:33:18 AM PDT by
KSCITYBOY
(The media is corrupt)
To: EvilCapitalist
That caught me attention too. The article says he joined the Marines in 1969 when he turned 18.
60 posted on
04/03/2024 4:40:39 AM PDT by
shotgun
To: EvilCapitalist
I was thinking the very same thing! A very young vet as he would be 20 years old in 1976. The Vietnam war ended in 1975.
I got a draft notice in 1966 at 19 years of age. Served 3 3/4 years in the USAF.
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