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I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came.

I remember the day I found out my draft status. I was really floored and kind of staggered around in a daze. It just hadn't occurred to me that I could end up in Vietnam.

I think that Vietnam, many of us who served in Vietnam thought that was very wasteful, and to what end? To what end? What were we really there for? What were we really fighting for?

Frankly, I would not have made any difference in Vietnam, but much more is what difference it would have made in me.

I thought the Vietnam war was an utter, unmitigated disaster, so it was very hard for me to say anything good about it.

The Vietnam War totally turned my life around. Some people's lives were eliminated or destroyed by the experience. I was one of the fortunate few who came out better off.

I thought the war would never end. And perhaps it never did, either.

South Vietnam faces total defeat, and soon.