Monthly Archives: February 2012
The Military Draft
Compulsory Military Service About 60% of eligible men escaped military service during the Vietnam era; I was not one of them. The summer of 1969 I received my induction papers from Uncle Sam. The last military draft in the United … Continue reading
Filed under Vietnam War
USO in Vietnam
United Service Organization The USO is a private, nonprofit organization whose mission is to support the troops by providing morale, welfare and recreation-type services to our men and women in uniform; G.I.’s “home away from home.” Bob Hope USO Show … Continue reading
Filed under Vietnam War
Helmet Graffiti
Things we wrote When I arrived in Vietnam in March of 1970, one of the first things ‘Uncle Sam’ issued to me was a steel pot; the military called it the M-1 helmet. It felt like it weighed half a … Continue reading
Filed under Vietnam War
