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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]None of you ever talked with 70 yr old relatives about the draft and Vietnam war? Have you been to the Vietnam Vet war memorial? Be sure to do both. [/quote] Yeah, really. I'm surprised about the ignorance here. My dad told me from a young age that he was really lucky to have turned 18 in 1973, after the draft ended. My uncle was lucky to not have been drafted, but was planning on running away to Canada if his number had been called. [/quote] Most people I know with relatives of that age don’t like to talk about it. For those of us of a certain age, Vietnam was really history yet. I graduated from high school in 1985. The war had ended less than 10 years earlier. It was still fresh and painful.[/quote] I agree, the men in my family did not discuss. Neither my uncles who served nor my married father, who enrolled in college (first in his family) and did not.[/quote]
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