This lottery system was abolished the following year in the U.S. and fortunately for me, the war ended before my lottery was drawn. The Vietnam War was the first televised war, brought to the American dinner tables via mass media coverage. In Retrospect - The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam . Yet we were wrong, terribly wrong. We owe it to the future generations to explain why .
War has a masterful way of teaching lessons, lessons humanity continually fails to learn.
But we all should be very thankful to my brother and all the men and women who fought and died here in Vietnam as well as all war veterans and active US soldiers who work to preserve our precious freedoms. Exercise those precious freedoms, for everyone is not so fortunate. Patrick can ship world wide. Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, formerly known as Saigon. Notre Dame Cathedral in central Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.