10/22/2026
like the movie said, "We were young once" How young?
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There is a number in this chart that stops you if you sit with it. Twenty was the single deadliest age in Vietnam, with 14,095 dead, and the ages on either side of it, 19 and 21, account for another 18,000.
Put together, six in ten of the Americans killed there were 21 or younger, old enough to be drafted and sent halfway around the world but, until 1971, too young to vote for the people who sent them. Most of them could not legally buy a b**r!
The oldest were in their sixties. The youngest, Marine PFC Dan Bullock, was just 15, a kid who altered his birth certificate at 14 to get in and was killed at An Hoa.
One of the harshest truths of the Vietnam War is how much of the dying was done by kids a year or two out of high school. Ahhh 📜👦🏻💔
