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Conscripting facts.(Letter to the Editor)
A note in "The Week" memorializing the late Gen. William Westmoreland (August 8) states that Westmoreland "was leading an army of draftees against guerrillas who were the clients of nuclear superpowers." In fact, two thirds of Vietnam-era veterans volunteered for the military. Draftees made up only 25 percent of American forces in Vietnam and ...
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