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	Nixon's Vietnam-era defense chief calls for Iraq exit plan - The Boston Globe
		Vietnam fueled social division and upheaval in the United States, stirring emotions that are still raw more than a generation later; last year, when Senator Edward M. Kennedy called Iraq ''George Bush's Vietnam," outraged critics accused the Massachusetts Democrat of using the bitter war for his own political gain.
		In his view, the Vietnam War and the deployment of US troops to Iraq were both based on faulty assumptions; in Vietnam, the United States misinterpreted the motives of Communist leader Ho Chi Minh and underestimated the Viet Cong, while the Iraq war began with the belief that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction.
		The similarities continue, according to the article: As in Vietnam, US troops were sent to war in Iraq with little depth of understanding about the history, culture, and ethnic divides of the nation in which they were fighting.
	www.boston.com /news/world/middleeast/articles/2005/10/19/nixons_vietnam_era_defense_chief_calls_for_iraq_exit_plan (757 words)

	Vietnam veteran - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Vietnam veteran is a phrase used to describe someone who served in the armed forces of participating countries during the Vietnam War.
		The term is usually associated with veterans who were in the armed forces of South Vietnam, the United States armed forces and countries allied to them, whether or not they were actually stationed in Vietnam during their service.
		There are persistent stereotypes about Vietnam veterans as psychologically devastated, bitter, homeless, drug-addicted people who had a hard time readjusting to society, primarily due to the uniquely divisive nature of the Vietnam War in the context of U.S. History.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vietnam_veteran (778 words)

	VIETNAM VETERANS of AMERICA, INC., Chapter 820, Bend, Oregon
		The Vietnam Service Medal was awarded to all members of the armed forces who served in Vietnam and contiguous waters and airspace between 3 July 1965 and 28 March 1973.
		Founded in 1978, Vietnam Veterans of America, Inc. is the only national Vietnam veterans organization congressionally chartered and exclusively dedicated to Vietnam-era veterans and their families.
		VVA's goals are to promote and support the full range of issues important to Vietnam veterans, to create a new identity for this generation of veterans, and to change public perception of Vietnam veterans.
	mypeoplepc.com /members/jackdiamondback/vietnamveteransofamericaincchapter820bendoregon (573 words)

	Monthly Labor Review: The Vietnam-era cohort: employment and earnings. @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		As of September 1989, there were 8.1 million veterans of the Vietnam era, which extends from August 1964 to May 1975.3 The composition of this population is considerably different from that of the population as a whole.
		An understanding of the institutional context of selectivity during the Vietnam era is essential to the assessment of the labor market performance of the Vietnam generation.[19] Relative to the massive baby-boom cohort coming of draft age at the time, the Vietnam war required a military force of modest size.
		During the Vietnam era, the relatively low military personnel needs and the pressure to maintain a healthy civilian economy led to a patchwork of deferments and exemptions based on poor performance on physical or mental aptitude exams, school enrollment, fatherhood, hardship, employment in selected occupations (especially teachers, engineers, and ministers), and other criteria.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:12441283&refid=holomed_1 (6622 words)

	FACT VS FICTION.....THE VIETNAM VETERAN
		Throughout the Vietnam era, the median education level of the enlisted man was about 13 years.
		A common negative image of the soldier in Vietnam is that he smoked pot and injected heroin to dull the horrors of combat.
		The same is true for the nonsense that Vietnam vets have high rates of suicide, often heard as the "fact" that more veterans had died by their own hand than in combat.
	www.vvof.org /factsvnv.htm (1375 words)

	Hepatitis C in Vietnam Era Veterans
		Vietnam era veterans are generally defined as those serving on active duty between 1964 and 1975.
		What was unique about the Vietnam era and hepatitis C? Medical advances during the Vietnam War included rapid evacuation, improved transfusion and high rates of U.S. casualty survival in an era prior to hepatitis C screening of the blood supply.
		Complex challenges remain in the epidemiology and treatment of hepatitis C. Many Vietnam era veterans are now on the front lines of the hepatitis C epidemic.
	www.hcvadvocate.org /hcsp/articles/vietvet.html (1646 words)

	Did Vietnam-era protesters spit? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		While there's little doubt that some Vietnam vets in uniform were spat upon during those turbulent years, no proof exists that antiwar protesters were the spitters.
		The Journal editorialized on March 28, that "During the 1960s and 1970s, people opposed to the Vietnam War took out their rage on the wrong people: The soldiers, sailors and aviators who fought the war but had nothing to do with the decision to enter it.
		The perpetuation of such myths only blocks the healing of Vietnam veterans from our "culture of victimization," and it serves the agenda of those pro-war forces who place fear and intimidation in the path of open debate on the pressing issues of the moment.
	www.veteransforpeace.org /Did_protesters_spit_050803.htm (680 words)

	P.O.V. - Re: Vietnam: Stories Since the War . Oral History Tips \| PBS
		Whether you interview a Vietnam Vet, someone who was active in the movement against the war, a refugee from Southeast Asia, or anyone else, keep in mind that the goal is to gather stories not just about experiences of that time, but how those experiences have influenced people's lives since then.
		The Vietnam era is a particularly rich topic for exploration through oral history.
		Oral testimony can provide powerful insight into the experiences of the women who served in the military in Vietnam, as well as the stories of Vietnamese families now living in the U.S. Social movements played crucial roles in shaping the Vietnam era, and oral testimony is an excellent tool for studying such movements.
	www.pbs.org /pov/stories/vietnam/curriculum.html (2202 words)

	Monthly Labor Review: Labor force status of Vietnam-era veterans. @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The age distribution of veterans of the Vietnam era is relatively concentrated, with two-thirds between ages 35 and 44 in April 1985.
		Veterans of the Vietnam era are now in their prime working ages, and 7.5 million of a total of 7.9 million were in the labor force in April 1985.
		For instance, men in the Vietnam theater had, on average, less education and were from poorer families than other veterans of the same era.8 Hence, they were already at a greater risk in terms of joblessness.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:4803164&refid=holomed_1 (2501 words)

	Vietnam-era divisions echo in new campaign - The Boston Globe
		If international terrorism, like global communism, represents a threat to the American way of life, there can be two basic responses: one essentially liberal, to persuade others to come together to condemn it, and one essentially conservative, to ward it off by force.
		But like the war in Vietnam, the Iraq war puts these two impulses at odds, because it was not justifiable as a purely defensive action.
		Howard Dean shared his brother's opposition to the Vietnam War, but not his radical politics and not his desire to see the war firsthand.
	www.boston.com /news/nation/articles/2003/11/25/vietnam_era_divisions_echo_in_new_campaign (774 words)

	The Truth - The Number Of Black US Soldiers Lost In Vietnam
		One of the most widespread of these myths is that fl Americans fought and died in extraordinarily high proportions in the Vietnam War relative to the rest of the population.
		This was ostensibly the result of American racism and is a reason given by many fls (a leftwing minority to be sure) for why they are so ready to betray their country in the current war and line up with Osama bin Laden and his friends.
		During the Vietnam War era (draft era to be precise) fls of military age made up 13.5 percent of the total population, but only 9.7 percent of the Vietnam era military forces were fl.
	www.rense.com /general17/thetruththenumber.htm (449 words)

	The Vietnam War - America's Longest War, American Soldiers Fought and Died Here to Defend Our Freedom. The Vietnam War ...
		The Vietnam War was a military struggle fought in Vietnam from 1959 to 1975, involving the North Vietnamese and the National Liberation Front (NLF) in conflict with United States forces and the South Vietnamese army.
		North Vietnam came under the control of the Vietnamese Communists who had opposed France and who aimed for a unified Vietnam under Communist rule.
		Ultimately, however, the United States failed to achieve its goal, and in 1975 Vietnam was reunified under Communist control; in 1976 it officially became the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
	www.vietnamwar.com (1017 words)

	VietnamVets.org's Vietnam Vet Site Directory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Vietnam Dog Handler Association - The VDHA was organized in 1993 by a group of six veteran war dog handlers that served during the Vietnam War.
		Vietnam Veterans In Canada - Voting Membership in the organization is open to Military Veterans of the Armed Forces of The United States, Australia, The Republic of Korea, The Republic of the Philippines and New Zealand who were awarded the Vietnam Service Medal...
		Vietnam Veterans Of America - Founded in 1978, Vietnam Veterans of America, Inc. is the only national Vietnam veterans organization congressionally chartered and exclusively dedicated to Vietnam-era veterans and their families.
	www.vietnamvets.org /directory/index.asp?CatID=32 (912 words)

	Stony Brook University Vietnam Veterans
		Vietnam Era Veterans are included in SUNY and Research Foundation affirmative action programs as required under Section 402 of the Vietnam Era Veterans' Adjustment Assistance Act of 1974 and NYS Executive Order No. 6.
		Few, however, have developed creative approaches to the hiring, retention and promotion of Vietnam Era Veterans, nor have they engaged in extraordinary outreach to the men and women, many of them members of minority groups, who served in the armed forces in the Vietnam Era.
		The result is that, despite legislation and regulations, Vietnam Era Veterans show higher rates of unemployment and underemployment and lower salaries when employed than do others in their age cohorts.
	ws.cc.sunysb.edu /diversity/Vietnam_Era_Vets.html (296 words)

	In The Shadow of the Blade is the Web site that documents a restored Huey
		Randy Hinds, a Vietnam veteran who now serves as chief information officer and professor of information systems at Kennesaw State University, was the master of ceremonies Oct. 7 when a restored Huey helicopter visited campus as part of a documentary film project, In the Shadow of the Blade.
		Nearly three decades have passed since the end of the Vietnam War, but the familiar outline of the UH-1, or Huey helicopter, has yet to fade from the American consciousness.
		Not even a driving rainstorm could prevent Vietnam veterans, members of the KSU community and other invited guests from attending the Oct. 7 landing of a restored Huey helicopter on the Campus Green.
	www.vietnamexp.com /Shadow/media_coverage/KennesawStateUniversity.htm (791 words)

	NY Vietnam Veterans Memorial (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		"Vietnam" author Myra McPherson has written, "was a war that asked everything of a few and nothing of most in America." During the years of our nation's longest conflict, some 27 million American men came of age to serve in the military.
		The 100-member commission was to raise the funds to stage a competition to select a design, and then build, a fitting memorial; and to create a jobs program for unemployed and underemployed Vietnam veterans.
		By the time the Vietnam Veterans Memorial was dedicated on the tenth anniversary of the end of the Vietnam Era, more than $3 million had been raised or pledged.
	www.nyvietnamveteransmemorial.org /vvm/making_build.html (527 words)

	eBay Guides - The Vietnam Era M1 Helmet
		With this in mind, following my own market evaulation on Vietnam era gear, the average Vietnam infantry helmet has gone from a value of a little over $15 apiece in 2004 to averaging just a bit over $45 currently (that's a 200% jump).
		In dating Nam era lids, also be aware that cut up Jeep inner tubes were also used as bands (the current belief is that the USMC was so isolated from supply depots that they used inner tubes as bands).
		If Vietnam helmets are becoming a new passion for you, don't worry, as rising values prove, you are not alone.
	reviews.ebay.com /The-Vietnam-Era-M1-Helmet_W0QQugidZ10000000002342939 (907 words)

	Kerry no hero in eyes of Vietnam-era veteran \| ajc.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In 1970, during the Vietnam War, I enlisted in the Navy to do my part, as I believed was my duty.
		But Vietnam was not WWII, and the vets who served during the '60s and the '70s drew -- and still draw -- a distinction between those who saw combat in Vietnam and those who did service elsewhere.
		But all those who served during the Vietnam years hold clear that each of us did our job and had, for the most part, no control over what position we were given or where we were stationed.
	www.ajc.com /opinion/content/opinion/0204a/09veteran.html (760 words)

	ZNet \|Iraq \| Good Evening, Vietnam
		Although Vietnam flooded instantly back into American consciousness as the invasion of Iraq was launched in March 2003--along with its ancient vocabulary from "hearts and minds" to "quagmire" (or the deeply referential "Q-word")--for the Bush administration the rhetorical reference point was World War II and its aftermath.
		Vietnam was, after all, a nation that only wanted to exist and whose "insurgency" was led by a single revolutionary/nationalist party headquartered in a separate half-nation.
		Just to ensure that this is indeed Vietnam we're now enmeshed in, both sides in the present recommendation debate have been consulting a key architect of the final losing years of the Vietnam era -- Henry Kissinger.
	www.zmag.org /content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=15&ItemID=11678 (1080 words)

	The History of the "boats" in the Vietnam War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		When North Vietnam declared that the political struggle with the South was not a military struggle, it was inevitable that the Americans in Vietnam would be sucked into the ensuring war.
		As the Vietnam war was drawing to a close more modern craft were being introduced.
		His Dad was the only Hoosier newspaperman to go to Vietnam to report on the war.
	www.warboats.org /vietnam.htm (399 words)

	CPS Publications - Employment Situation of Vietnam Era Veterans: September 1993
		Among those who were unemployed or not in the labor force in September 1993, about 4 in 10 perceived their disability to be an obstacle in the labor market.
		The unemployment rate for female veterans of the Vietnam era was 7.0 percent, compared with 4.8 percent for women who had not served in the Armed Forces.
		Because of the aging of the population, there are no longer any Vietnam- era veterans under 30 years of age or any other war veterans under 45 years of age.
	www.bls.census.gov /cps/pub/vet_1293.htm (2663 words)

	Vietnam Era Coins (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The above Challenge Coins were issued to members of the 101st Airborne Division, who completed their Vietnam tour of duty. There is a place on the back of the coin for your name and unit to be engraved.
		The coin should always be carried with Pride by 101st Vietnam Veterans as an instant type of identification.
		Vietnam Special Presentation 101st Abn Div Challenge Coin to B.G. Bowers, 1969, tarnished.999 fine silver.
	www.screamingeagle326.com /coins.htm (401 words)

	Frequently Asked Questions
		The Vietnam Women’s Memorial honors all women who served their country during the Vietnam war and was dedicated in Washington, D.C. on Veterans Day, 1993 after a ten-year effort.
		Having created copyrights for memorials, Congress has recognized that the revenues from copyright licensing may be used to further the purposes of the memorial, both in terms of perpetual maintenance and improvements and for the non-profit educational purposes of its sponsors.
		The Vietnam Women’s Memorial belongs to all Americans and photographs and videos may be taken for personal enjoyment.
	www.vietnamwomensmemorial.org /pages/frames/faq.html (1150 words)

	American RadioWorks - Revisiting Vietnam
		Thousands of Americans who served in Vietnam suffer from diseases they say were caused by exposure to the defoliant called Agent Orange.
		But scientists say the impact of Agent Orange in Vietnam has not been sufficiently studied, so the extent of harm is difficult to judge.
		The protesters and supporters of US involvement in Vietnam have had three decades to reflect on what they were fighting for.
	americanradioworks.publicradio.org /features/vietnam (510 words)

	Federal Bureau of Investigation - FBI History Vietnam War Era: 1960's- 1970's
		President Kennedy's assassination introduced the violent aspect of the era known as the "Sixties." This period, which actually lasted into the mid-1970s, was characterized by idealism, but also by increased urban crime and a propensity for some groups to resort to violence in challenging the "establishment."
		Most Americans objecting to involvement in Vietnam or to other policies wrote to Congress or carried peace signs in orderly demonstrations.
		Opposition to the war in Vietnam brought together numerous anti-establishment groups and gave them a common goal.
	www.fbi.gov /libref/historic/history/vietnam.htm (795 words)

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		Warren County, New Jersey lost 24 of Her Sons to the ravages of the Vietnam War.
		It was also created to furnish material, to educate, and to acquaint our young to the suffering and horror of war, to the men and the ideals of those men and women who fought the war, and to the people and Country of Vietnam.......
		Over 11 + years of combat in Vietnam, 365 days a year, these 9 days were the only days that no New Jeresyian died in that war.
	vietnamveteransmemoral.homestead.com /Home.html (581 words)

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