Virtually every aspect of the [Vietnam] war and military service associated with it was miscast and then etched into bad history. Two thirds of the troops who fought in Vietnam were volunteers, not draftees; blacks in Vietnam only comprised about 12 percent of the troops, equivalent to their percentage of the population as a whole; and college graduates were more likely to be killed or wounded than non-college grads (a reasonable conclusion, considering all the pilots and almost all officers were college graduates).
Larry Schweikart and Michael Allen, A Patriot’s History of the United States, pg.723
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