No, I am not a Vietnam vet. That was a misunderstanding because I wrote that when I fell sick from PTSD the only information available at that time was research being done in the States regarding returned military personnel. I do have one person in my life who served in Vietnam however, and totally respect the mind-destroying experience that some young soldiers went through over there. He is of Chinese origin and was conscripted, ouf! I also helped out on a trauma website where one member was having a breakdown as a result of his work in the military: eventually he found himself a 24 hr specialist facility thank goodness, because the depth of what he had been through outstripped our ability to realistically support him.