I’m told that when speaking to VN indig, especially the 20-30 year-olds or any gmvt officials, don’t deny you were there, but tell them you were a cook or a clerk.
It doesn’t matter what you did in the war. IT DOESN’T MATTER. Mostly they are not interested. My afsc would have got me arrested in 1990. Now no one cares. The war was fate. It happened. It was terrible. Folks don’t want to talk about it. Sometimes old veterans, from either side, will talk about it. The old NVAs and VCs will surprise you with their attitudes toward the war and America. “I fought the French and the Americans for 22 years. If we had lost the war this would be a rich country today.”