brought was on american streets that were tolerated and american politics were sent to treat these trenary all prostitutes for venereal disease. so there was a wink weak approach boys will be boys to this trade in viet nam which i think is a harsh reminder that this is ultimately an expletive encounter americans were having with the vietnamese women that these women were participating in net not because they had aspired to be prostitutes but because the war unsettled the countryside and create 5 million refugees families were struggling and often the last best hope for a family was to prostitute their daughter so american soldiers didn't seem to pay much thought to that. not all of them but a lot of them so there are consequences for the vietnamese. as far as the drinking is concerned, drinking was rampant in vietnam. a lot of attention is paid to drug use because americans of the time like the world over were experimenting with pot and other drugs and that carried into the vietnam war but drinking was essentially encouraged because the u.s. military was the purveyor of alcohol. at times t