Vietnam was an unbelievable tragedy. 60,000 good men lost. Vietnam became a unified communist state after all, and communism didn't spread to other countries. Just a tragedy of epic proportion. Vietnam lost a lot of people too, way more than the US did. some estimates say they lost 1 million people. I feel terrible for the guys that went. There were a lot of people we know who avoided it, celebrities, congressmen/senators, and former presidents clinton and bush. mccain deserves all the credit he gets for going, but he also shouldn't behave in the vindictive way he has been in the final years of his life.