The oldest US serviceman to die in the Vietnam War was Clyde Taylor, age 62.
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Plenty of US Servicemen of Irish descent fought in the war, but Ireland did not fight in the Vietnam War.
The 26th Amendment to the United States Constitution which lowered the voting age from 21 to 18 was connected to the Vietnam War because the average age of a soldier in Vietnam was about 19, the argument was that if they could fight and die for their country at 18 and 19 they should be able vote.
Soldiers are people who fight, and sometimes kill, which is an exact opposite to peace, which is serenity and non violence. The two opposites contradict each other, because you can only have one or the other, not both. The meaning of wearing a peace symbol, as a soldier, especially in Vietnam, is that the soldier wants peace, and is trying to fight to get it, which could be seen as contradictory as well. If there was no war to get peace to begin with, there would be peace.
The US supported Ho Chi Minh fight the Japanese in Vietnam as part of their war with Japan .