You guys aren't honoring veterans with this men's powder room bullshit. SR, why would you even try to convince someone who obviously believes if it's on the internet, it's real. For the record; a Viet Nam Veteran is anyone serving active duty in any branch of any involved nations military during the timeframe of the Viet Nam conflict.
Originally Posted by daty/o
Probably not, but a "Viet Nam Era Veteran," yes. The statistical information I had referenced was making a distinction of U.S. servicemembers who were "in-country" in Vietnam as a portion of the total U.S. servicemembers at the time.
Your belief could have well been the basis for a triggered response to a poll (census) taken at the time, which could have resulted in some distortion of the numbers, but I don't think an 80% distortion. The census was for 2000.
Had the "poll" be taken in 1970 or 1980 there well could have been a "distortion" the other way, because the bad taste of the news coverage and attitude in the general population had not yet been washed away.
As to your initial question ... one can crunch the numbers based on DOD publications available on the internet and see that there is some validity to the presentation by the veteran who reviewed the data and posted his computations, which he provides for anyone to see. His data is specific regarding other demographics and categories of information. What I posted was a "sliver" of the information posted. It certainly has more value than some of the other shit posted in this forum.