I get angry about my dad who I've disowned and my mom who won't tell me how I was born in 1970. My father was in Vietnam and did some crazy ass shit while he was there but nobody talks about it.
It would help me a lot but it's never going to happen. And no, I'm not the milkman's kid because I look and act exactly like that old bastard.
I marked my own views on the war as moving from agnostic, to ambivalent to appalled. All within the context of working part time, going to school part time and doing the military part time. Oddly, or perhaps understandably, there was little talk about the war at my reserve meetings. There really wasn't even apprehension about a call-up as the USMC was using the draft for the first time since .the Korean War.
Between 1964 and 1973, 9,087,000 men and women would serve in the armed forces in some capacity. Of these 2,594,000 would be deployed to Vietnam. 1,766,910 would be drafted into the military serving throughout the world. Most of those who were drafted went into the Army and less than 42,700 went into the Marine Corps. The Navy and Air Force did not accept draftees.[65]
From a pool of approximately 27 million, the draft raised 2,215,000 men for military service (in the United States, South Vietnam, and elsewhere) during the Vietnam War era. The majority of service members deployed to South Vietnam were volunteers, even though [clarification needed] hundreds of thousands of men opted to join the Army, Air Force, Navy, and Coast Guard (for three or four year terms of enlistment) before they could be drafted, serve for two years, and have no choice over their military occupational specialty (MOS)[clarification needed].[66]
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