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More than sixty-five percent of American soldiers serving in Vietnam were volunteers. Was there a great bout of patriotism, or a belief in the cause that lead to this volunteering? Did volunteers dry up as the war dragged on and the situation was better understood back home?

by /u/RusticBohemian in /r/AskHistorians

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