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You bring up an interesting point about family expectations, and how that factored into men’s choices to volunteer for the war. Did you set out with the expectation of finding this, or did it simply arise as you were looking through sources? In my personal experiences with veterans from Vietnam and other wars, I find their reasons for signing up vary between a few rationales (albeit with some deviation). For many they are following in their parents’ footsteps, others do it for the benefits, and some to make a career out of it. What made you choose to right about these two individuals, as opposed to, say, a draftee and their opinions?
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Well, I was always curious why men in the 1960s would want to volunteer to fight in the Vietnam War. My dad went to Vietnam for only two weeks, but he never really talked about it. The only thing he ever told me was that he wanted to go. I have always wondered why and when I saw that it was an option for a project, I decided to do some research.