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Originally Posted by piltymon
The questions were brought about by something I was watching on American TV this morning. In America there seems to be the idea that the Vietnam vets were hard done by. I just wondered what a wider audience thought is all.
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The war in Vietnam was massively unpopular, especially in America, which goes a long way towards explaining why soldiers returning from that war were sidelined.
America tried to ignore soldiers from that war for a long time. In fact, they tried to ignore the war altogether! For example, it wasn't until the mid-1980s that Hollywood acknowledged Vietnam as anything other than a backdrop for another story (e.g. Apocalypse Now).