Most of you little ones here either were still wetting their pants at the time, or were still in the making, or are still wetting them right now - but Vietnam is indelibly engraved into America's collective unconscious.
Started in '67, I think, under Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon as presidents.
't Wasn't exactly a glorious experience for the US, and its veterans, many of whom came back scarred for the rest of their lives physically as well as emotionally (easy to say, I know, I wasn't there myself as I am an European) are to be deeply pitied...