What a difference a few years makes. Throughout the 1960s, '70s and most of the '80s, Vietnam veterans were portrayed as unemployable and uneducated hicks, felons given a choice between prison and military service, war criminals, youngsters brainwashed to believe they performed a patriotic duty, or dead-end kids with no other options.
COLUMN: Distorted Vietnam service has a long history
Tuesday, June 1, 2010 | 12:12 p.m. CDT;
updated 6:03 p.m. CDT, Tuesday, June 1, 2010
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