The myth is the result of no one (thats not a lib) being allowed to talk about Vietnam. If you bring it up and you weren't alive then they (usually libs) say "what do you know?" If you did fight in the war, like most soldiers of any war, you don't talk about it because you just don't. The Libs have taken ownership of it on college campuses with hugely biased courses on it. It is not talked about in high school. It is the biggest cover up in our history because if the average person knew just how bad the communists infiltrated this country we would be pissed and do something about it. Instead when you bring up communism, you get laughed at.
Someday all the vets of that war will be dead and no one will be around to tell the truth - if the libs have their way. They created the quagmire that they refer to any time someone defends this country with the military (that isn't a Dem).
Tell me about it...really PO's me. And your right, the real truth may never be broadly known. Given that there were 8 million people that where in the armed forces during that period - not all of them in VN, obviously - it is truely scary. I do run into young people and tell them some of the truth of it and point them to literature or websearches and they do come to see they have been lieed to.
The other great lie about that war is the supression of how many people died in VN, Laos and Cambodia after the pullout. It was in the millions. You will never get a leftist to cop to that one, even if you put the figures and the photos right in front of them! I have all but given up on it.
That is why someone like Oliver Stone is a real SOB. He should know better, he had the forum but he continued the lies. I would like a chance to talk to him out behind the latrines...