Originally Posted by Guest

You attached the above to my post AND DID NOT ANSWER A SINGLE QUESTION.

Did you serve in Vietnam or did you allow someone else to go in your place?

As to why-there are books on the subject.
Try as you might you cannot spin not going and allowing someone else to go in your place as a manly, heroic act.
There was a group VETS AGAINST THE WAR-they NOT YOU, earned the right to protest.