What It Was Like Fighting in The Vietnam War [15:06-15:57]

The good times for some of them, for most of them outnumbered the bad times. These were complicated young men with dreams and hopes like everybody else that when their country said do something, they went and did it, and that thing was really difficult. These guys are 70 years old now, and the really difficult thing they did, although it's maybe the most important thing they did, was one year out of their lives. These guys are now grandparents, great-grandparents, leaders of businesses, retired folks, preachers and churches, painters, dreamers, you name it, that our Vietnam veterans aren't a word that there's something much more complicated and meaningful than that. They're Americans, and a full meaning is that word as any other American.