Vietnam Era (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Vietnam Era is a term used by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs to classify veterans of the Vietnam War. The Vietnam Era is a considered to have begun in 1964 and ended in 1975. The U.S. Congress, U.S. Department of Defense and the Department of Veterans Affairs elected to designate those years as such to accord special privileges to all persons who served the country's armed forces during that time. Similar designations have been made for other periods of war. Because the beginning and end of the Vietnam War was rather ill defined, given its characteristics, it was necessary for the Federal government to set forth exact years of the conflict.