[HighWheeler]

"millions of men who have been taught to deal and to trade in violence, and who are given the chance to die for the biggest nothing in history."

The pronoun "nothing" he spoke of was the war in Vietnam.

[jwalburg]

Possibly. Here is the entire paragraph:

I would like to talk to you a little bit about what the result is of the feelings these men carry with them after coming back from Vietnam. The country doesn't know it yet, but it has created a monster, a monster in the form of millions of men who have been taught to deal and to trade in violence, and who are given the chance to die for the biggest nothing in history; men who have returned with a sense of anger and a sense of betrayal which no one has yet grasped.

Since one is used to the phrase "the chance to die for your country" it seems natural to assume he was substituting for that, but I concede he could just mean that it was a "nothing" to fight against brutal communist terrorists.

[jwalburg]

Also, you die IN a war, not FOR a war. Sounds weird to say you are dying for a war.