Dr. Richard Land, BA (magna cum laude), Princeton; D.Phil. Oxford; and Th.M., New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, was president of the Southern Baptists’ Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission (1988-2013) and has served since 2013 as president of Southern Evangelical Seminary in Charlotte, NC. Dr. Land has been teaching, writing, and speaking on moral and ethical issues for the last half century in addition to pastoring several churches.
Vietnam was largely fought disproportionately by working-class whites and Blacks and Hispanics, and they were very young. The average age of a combat soldier in Vietnam was 19.6 years of age—much younger than WWII, Korea, or the Gulf War