Author: Mathew Reid
Interviewer: Paige Bailey
From 1967 to 1974, millions of American men returned from the Vietnam War to an ungrateful nation. The war was a politically divisive conflict in the United States, and it spawned vicious anti-war sentiments that sometimes transferred over to the soldiers who served in the conflict. At the time, the government and the populace had to balance anti-war and pro-war sentiments which affected the treatment of veterans by the United States as a whole. As a result of the government programs supposedly in place to assist veterans, the response of the media to the war, and the reactions of the public to the soldiers returning from the conflict, the United States abandoned its servicemen to the permanent debilitations caused by war.