I am working on a demographic on Vietnam for a kid in high school. please help/thanks

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A friend's son is in high school and has asked a lot of questions about Vietnam. The further we got into it, the more confused he bacame. I thought it would be helpful if the Vietnam era vets on here would answer these questions...thanks for your participation !! .. ( if you choose not to participate, I would like to know why, and I will include that in the matrix as well... if you choose not to answer a certain question, just put "pass" by it....if it doesn't apply to you just put "N/A" by it... )...I am going to use it to create a statistical matrix ..this kid is going to major in math in college and is a statistics "wizard"...

( note ..you can cut and paste the quiz in the reply box , to make it easier )

Larry

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1. Did you physically set foot in South Vietnam from 1959- 1975 ? in Laos ? , in Cambodia ?, in North Vietnam ?
2. Did you spend your tour in a ship in the ocean just outside any of these countries ? or in an air force base in a surrounding country ? Which countries ?
3. Branch of service.
3A. Division, Battalion. Regiment, Company, etc....or in Navy, Air Force or Coast Guard, the corresponding info.
4. Number of total months spent on the ground. If multiple tours, how many months spent on the ground for each one.
5. Your primary MOS ( military occupational specialty ) the number and description. If you had multiple MOSs while on the gound, list all of them and months in each one.
6. Your R & R experience. Total numbers received, including in-country ( i.e. Vung Tau ), and where you went.
7. Total number of Purple Hearts received.
8. Did you earn a Bronze Star medal ( with or without V device ), Army Commendation medal ( with or without V device), Silver Star, or a higher level medal from 1959 - 1975 ?
9. Recipient of a CIB ( Combat Infantry Badge ) ?
10. Recipient of a CMB ( Combat Medical Badge ) ?
11. How many people from the high school you graduated from were killed in Vietnam and are their names on the Wall ?
12. Have you been diagnosed with an Agent Orange related disease as recognized by the VA ?
13. Receive compensation from the VA for PTSD ?
13A. Retired from the military ? Number of toal years served in active duty only.
14. Have a claim pending with the VA for PTSD ?
15. Approximately how many helicopter air assaults did you make during your whole number of months in country.
16. Should Jane Fonda have been tried for treason ?
17. The one duty station or firebase or base camp ( where you were ) on the ground, that you remember the most ? Why ?
18. How many of what you would consider "close friends" were KIA in Vietnam while you were on the ground there ?
19. If you could sum up your experience in Vietnam in one word and one word only ( verb, nouns, proper word, or anything else.. )...what would that be ?
20. If you were able to imagine all the "atrocities" commited by Allied forces ( US, ARVN, Australia, ROK, etc. ) from 1959 - 1975 as a percentage of "atrocities" commited by all Communist forces in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia ( not counting the 2,500,000+ murdered by the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia from 1975 -78 )....what would that number be ?

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Thank you for your participation !! It is damned hard to explain Vietnam to the younger generation these days. It will be even harder 20 years from now. There are a lot of valuable lessons to be learned. It is incumbent on all of us to teach these lessons each and every day, so that it never, ever happens again..

May God Bless,

Larry

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