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While it is good that the oung girl is informed where did she get her information from. I was anly a toddler when we pulled out of Vietnam. Growing up I never heard anything about it at all, good or bad. Even when i got to an sge where we should have been studying it there was nothing out there except dates and names. Nothing about how many were there at one given time, about how the draft worked nothing of any consequence. I took it upon myself to learn about this disgraceful period in our history. Disgraceful because of the way the government handled it, disgraceful because of the way the people back home acted. i discovered that many of the people who were opposed to the war were the one encouraging the young men to join and go to war to fight for the greater good of the country. They were also the ones who treated them with supreme indifference when they returned home to find that their world had changed. My mother only lost one friend in the war, not even a good friend but a friend all the same. When we visited the Memorial I cried for him and I had certainly never met him. I cried for his family and friends that never got to see him grow up. I cried for every family member and every friend of someone on that wall and for those who aren't. I was only 16 at the time. There still isn't enough information on any aspect of the war to hold anything that the young people say today. The only thing to be idolized now a days is the protests. It is a shame that we can't teach the young people of this country what the war and ensuing years were really like for the people that were realy there.