But the truth is that in the Vietnam era patriotism was put to the test, and was genuine on both sides of the debate.
If he stays in his job through December - and most analysts think he will - he'll become the longest serving Pentagon chief in history, passing the Vietnam era's Robert McNamara.
Grassroots media center www.indymedia.org covered it all from the barricades, where Seattle-based www.historylink.org also placed webcams while it exulted in the city reclaiming its Vietnam-era mantle as the Pacific Northwest's protest central.
It was a request more appropriate to the cold war, when Australia supported the United States with troops in Korea and Vietnam, than to an era when the Americans expect allies to pull their own weight in their own regions.
Gates served in the Air Force during the Vietnam era, but does not have extensive military experience.
The Arizona senator, who often mentions his time as a prisoner of war during the Vietnam era, graduated from the Academy in 1958 along with John Poindexter and Robert "Bud" McFarlane, two consecutive national security advisers under President Reagan who played a role in the Iran-Contra affair.
The Department of Veterans Affairs estimates there are about 200, 000 homeless veterans in the U.S., many of them from the Vietnam era.
Many of the entrepreneurs who capitalized on the boom after World War II or the Vietnam era have only in recent years been deciding what to do with their wealth.
It's the latest deployment in what has become the largest National Guard mobilization of its kind since the Vietnam era.
The post-Sputnik era drove the rapid growth in PhD physicists that came to an abrupt halt as the Vietnam war drained the science budget.
He said people from both campaigns found it effective in generating support for their candidate because of the Vietnam War-era baggage the issue carries.
Schwarzkopf, a highly decorated Vietnam War veteran, ushered in a new era for the U.S. military, whose exploits were broadcast live around the clock.
Calloway, a man with thinning hair, glasses, and a strong country accent, served during the Vietnam era, then became an energy trader at Duke Power, in North Carolina.
After graduating from the Air Force Academy in 1973, he had a brief but distinguished Air Force career during which he flew the Vietnam-era F-4 Phantom fighter jet.
He defeated Vietnam-era General William Westmoreland in a 1982 libel suit against CBS, largely by quoting the commander's own words back at him.
Getting older and skeptical of the Vietnam-era guns-and-butter economy, he sold off most of his interest in the firm to employees in the mid-1960s.
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