{"id":34835,"date":"2013-03-29T17:46:32","date_gmt":"2013-03-29T21:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=34835"},"modified":"2013-03-29T18:12:16","modified_gmt":"2013-03-29T22:12:16","slug":"vietnam-veterans-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=34835","title":{"rendered":"Vietnam Veterans&#8217; Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/thisainthell\/2521279913\/\" title=\"DSC_0051 by jlilyea, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3022\/2521279913_7d23ef7ef8.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"DSC_0051\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Vietnam War used to be the longest war in our history until the media decided to call the war against terror our longest war. The war in Vietnam lasted from November 1955 until April 30, 1975, when Saigon collapsed. 3.4 million Americans served in the theater and 2,594,000 served in Vietnam and off it&#8217;s shores between 1965 and 1973. They were 9.7% of their generation. Only 38% of draftees served in Vietnam.<\/p>\n<p>47,378 of the US military died in hostile actions. One nurse was KIA. 17,539 were married men. 17,725 were draftees. 5,977 were Reservists, 101 were National Guardsmen. 61% were aged less than 21 years.<\/p>\n<p>79% of Vietnam veterans had completed a high school education or higher. 75% came from families who were earning above the poverty level. 97% of Vietnam veterans were honorably discharged. 66% of Vietnam veterans said they would serve again if asked. 82% of those who saw combat say we failed in Vietnam because of political will, 75% of Americans agree with them.<\/p>\n<p>2,338 were listed as Missing in Action. 766 were listed as POWs, 114 died in captivity. Statistics from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.veteranshour.com\/vietnam_war_statistics.htm\">this link<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/thisainthell\/2522104978\/\" title=\"DSC_0055 by jlilyea, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3212\/2522104978_6abde6d0d9.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"DSC_0055\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Vietnam War used to be the longest war in our history until the media decided &hellip; <a title=\"Vietnam Veterans&#8217; Day\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=34835\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Vietnam Veterans&#8217; Day<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}