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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: Scumbria who wrote (146500)5/19/2001 4:19:05 PM
From: KLP  Read Replies (2) of 769670
 
Typical DemoCRAP line! Always on the attack, and with few facts....Did you mis this part of the article?

SOCIO-ECONOMIC STATUS...
76% of the men sent to Vietnam were from lower middle/working class backgrounds.
Thee-fourths had family incomes above the poverty level; 50% were from middle income backgrounds.
Some 23% of Vietnam vets had fathers with professional, managerial or technical occupations.


79% of the men who served in Vietnam had a high school education or better when they entered the military service. (63% of Korean War vets and only 45% of WWII vets had completed high school upon separation.)
Deaths by region per 100,000 of population: South -- 31%, West -- 29.9%; Midwest -- 28.4%; Northeast -- 23.5%.
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