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The Hidden Struggles of Vietnam Soldiers
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The Vietnam War did not just break soldiers when they came home. It broke them while they were still there. And the military knew. And did nothing. By 1971, the US Army was in a state of psychological collapse. Soldiers were refusing orders. Desertion rates were at their highest since World War Two. An estimated 40,000 soldiers went AWOL in a single year. The military had a term for soldiers who could no longer function. They called them ineffectives. Men so mentally destroyed by what they had witnessed that they could not hold a weapon, follow an order, or even
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