Over 11,000 US Servicemen UNDER twenty years old were killed in the Vietnam War.
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It went from WWII to Vietnam.
President Eisenhower sent US Military Advisers to South Vietnam in 1955.
Those statistics are itemized on the "Vietnam War casualties" website.
Many famous people opposed the Vietnam War, including Gene McCarthy, John Lennon, Bob Dylan, Jane Fonda (who went a bit too far), Gore Vidal, and many more.
It is estimated that approximately 50,000 Americans went to Canada in order to avoid the draft. The Vietnam War lasted from 1959 to 1975.