i open the second letter it was from general lewis hershey he said i was to report to the new haven inductionin threer weeks. so i did not know what to do so i called the peace corps and i got a nice woman on the phone she said we are sorry mr. pritchard but in these circumstances the defense department takes precedence. that is the first thing it reminds me of it. the second thing it reminds me of it was an undeclared war which congress never really voted on or formally approved. we were consumed by the >> of anti- communism and the domino theory. all of that was a false assumption that 58000 americans died and millions and millions of civilians of vietnamese died. >> 3 million troops served over an eight year period from 1965 to 1973. 58000 american servicemen and women gave their lives. when you are there and 67 and 68 did you see combat? >> as i said i never had to fire my weapon. we got mortar from time to time and would have to run to the bunkers. i had some convoy duty which was the closest i ever had to getting into combat. we are being shot at from across a rice paddy we had behind t