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it was horrible
South Vietnam was an agriculture based society (a farming life).
There is a US Army PFC Henry Rogers from Owingsville, KY; listed as killed in Vietnam in 1968.
Australian society mirrored American society after the war, on a smaller scale, due to population differences.
Cold war.
The Black Vietnam War Veterans was treated like dogs. Most of them could not get a job and end up in prison with life sentence.
Hell
Like the US Civil War in the 1860s the Vietnam War in the 1960s divided America.
Hatred for the war.
A PFC in the US Army paid $6.50 as a monthly premium for $10,000 worth of life insurance in World War 2.
Just common people making a living, like everywhere else; up until WW2 (1940 for Indochina). At that point in time, Vietnam was at war until 1975.