Political Alienation Among Vietnam Veterans

Abstract

ETWEEN January 1965 and January 1972, 45,929 American servicemen lost their lives in the Republic of Vietnam through action by hostile forces.2 In the same period, U.S. military forces suffered 303,598 injuries from enemy action. A little over half of these men (153,291) required hospital care. Army personnel, mainly infantrymen, accounted for the majority of the killed and wounded. This paper examines the political attitudes of Army veterans hospitalized from wounds incurred while serving in Vietnam.