Word: vietnamized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...young scientist volunteered for the army because his draft board told him he would soon be required to enter the service and, in the middle of the Vietnam War, enlisted men fared better than draftees...
Still, according to Kaku--now a physics professor at City University of New York--it didn't matter to the American government who you were when you joined the military. "They just wanted bodies to die in Vietnam. They wanted people who would go to the frontline...
Until early 1968, Vietnam had been called a rich man's war. The poor had been sent to fight while communities like Harvard were accused of letting the war remain an academimc topic...
Fort Benning chants like "This is my rifle, this is my gun; one's for shooting, one's for fun," and "I want to go to Vietnam, I want to kill a Charlie Kong. Kill! Kill!" soon replaced what Kaku could remember of philosophy courses and essay-writing...
...routine blood test there showed the young soldier to be partially diabetic. "Just one of those gifts from God," he calls the results. "You sort of resign yourself to going to Vietnam and then you find you can get out of the military for health reasons...