Undoubtedly.  Put half-a-million 18 year-olds (who don't want to be there in
the first place) through 2 months of Basic Infantry Training and then bring
them from the U.S. to a firebase in less than 24 hours, well, they're bound
to shoot at anything that moves.  The psychological preparation for the
horror of Vietnam was so abysmal that many of those friendly fire wounds
were self-inflicted.

A couple years ago I watched McNamara weep openly on national TV about the
mistake that was Vietnam.  Poor Bob thought he was so "right and just" at
the time.

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10,000 of that number where casualties of friendly fire.

> from France's mistake.  We did learn, 12 years and over 50,000 lives
later.
>
> -Kyle