The story that Vietnam was a war in which draftees were the bulk of those killed is not true. Two thirds of those who served in Vietnam were volunteers, but two thirds of those who served in WW II were drafted. Approximately 70% of those killed were volunteers. Many men volunteered for the draft so even some of the draftees were actually volunteers. The below link provides many other historical facts.
Statistics about the Vietnam War (scroll down and hit words beside History Channel logo)
http://www.vhfcn.org/
Ronald Reagan gave the best summation of the Vietnam experience when he said “ours (mine) was a noble cause. A small country (including ethnic Chinese, Catholic Vietnamese and others fleeing Communism) newly free from colonial rule sought our help in establishing self-rule and the means of self-defense against a totalitarian neighbor (Tonkinese) bent on conquest. He said that to consider it otherwise dishonored the memory of over 58,000 who died in the cause.
I never really identified with my Boomer Generation. By junior high I was playing golf with men of the Greatest Generation. I was around men who flew in the Flighting Tigers, climbed Pointe de Hoc on D-Day, landed in North Africa and Sicily, cleared surf obstacles in the Pacific with the first UDT teams, etc. They are the people I could identify with, so when my turn came, I volunteered. If they and their parents could make it through the Depression and WW II, I could certainly handle a few years of military service.
I would consider these people great, because of what they successfully endured. Now millennials are staggered by micro-aggressions like ants befuddled by a leaf falling into their path.
“Two thirds of those who served in Vietnam were volunteers, but two thirds of those who served in WW II were drafted.”
Well then, you undermine your own point. Vietnam War soldiers were more patriotic than those in WWII.