[Larry381]

Definitely a moving issue of Life although it shouldn't be forgotten that Life, like so many other magazines at that particular time was anti-war.

[TangledUpInBlue]

Exactly. But it’s history documented nonetheless and although I was too small to remember or understand Vietnam, I know my history and this is a nice piece - the motive for creating it notwithstanding.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

The intention of the article was to arouse anti war sentiment. IMHO.

[dfwgator]

Of course how convenient they forget that it was Nixon who got out of the war.

[cherry]

I don't know if the mag. had discretion in the order of the pics, but it does seem they start out with a large number of black soldiers as if they made up 50% of the death toll....but they were not.....their numbers were about equal to their population as a whole....

that aside, its a very moving, very sad list....all those young men....

I suppose every war has this equal long list of young men, lost.....

what does it do to a society when so many young men...young men who were adventursome, honorable,patriotic, etc are lost to their generation....that many fewer good men as husbands and fathers....

multiply that over all the wars, the the change in society has got to be very, very devastating...

because who is left at home?....particularly during the draft, there were the draft dodgers, the ones who escaped to college, ones who claimed one malidy after another.....