Resolution could have caused this lack of confidence, which is basically a direct statement of the Vietnam Syndrome. Not only does this syndrome cover the government, but the general population also is more wary now. The media no longer trusts the government officials and always tries to reveal disreputable things about previously respected leaders. When this book was written, 500,000 people or ten percent of the young men eligible for signing up for the draft broke the law and did not since it was not guaranteed to be a safe thing to do. I can see the institution of the Vietnam syndrome just looking around myself, and it is not always completely beneficial in my opinion.Although some may argue that we are now a nation more cautious towards preventing deaths, the horrible nightmares that veterans face continue night after night to the point of an overall want to forget that Vietnam ever happened. This book is biased to the point of offering a 10:1 ratio of pages concerning the negative legacies to positive legacies. One cannot really blame the authors for this, though. They do offer a small solution for amending some of these problems, however. They say that we should do what Lincoln would have done if he were still leading us and have a public mourning displaying the complete sadness of what happened and not merely a mask convincing all that they are doing the right thing. They also say that the older men who run the country and run the military should collectively give a public apology to the younger men in an attempt to regain their respect and provide a place for the male ego to come from again. It will be impossible to forget the Vietnam War, but we can still do whatever possible to ease the painful memories and rebuild what was lost....
