The “Vietnam war (1957-1975)” was a civil war between North Communist Vietnam and South Free Vietnam. The United States joined South Vietnam, Russia joined North Vietnam. The US didn’t want the war in Vietnam to become a war on Communism, so the US government decided to do a containment along the 18th Parallel. This descion killed a lot of soldiers. After a while they ran out of volenteers and began to draft men, 19 years of age and older. Early 1970’s the president was slowly pulling out US forces. When the GI’s returned the where treated as outcast and being called “Baby Killers”, but they didn’t want to go to Vietnam, they where drafted!