Vietnam Veterans Deservedly Honored
The Vietnam War was a twenty-year anguish that divided Americans like nothing before and a great deal since. Almost three-million U.S. Servicemen served—boots down—in the jungles, deltas, and mountains of the Southeast Asian nation: 58,148 of them were killed; 75,000 were severely disabled; 23,214 were 100% disabled; 5,283 lost limbs; and 1,081 sustained multiple amputations. The average age of the men killed was 23.1 years.