Lol, I was thinking the mother was named "Diana" (but pronounced weirdly!) all this time (maybe because that's how you do pronounce Diana in Spanish), that is finally making sense to me now! :p
As for Vietnam the average age of the people serving was only 19 (vs. 26 for WWII), so there were a lot of 17 year olds (was possible with parental permission) and 18 year olds serving....the average term for Marines I think was 3 years at least, though usually only 1 in Vietnam (though that was more than enough--although as a corporal he might have only spent 6 mo with them, they cycled out officers, not sure which level though)....so he could have indeed served for a while and still be so young!
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Date: 2009-11-26 09:07 pm (UTC)As for Vietnam the average age of the people serving was only 19 (vs. 26 for WWII), so there were a lot of 17 year olds (was possible with parental permission) and 18 year olds serving....the average term for Marines I think was 3 years at least, though usually only 1 in Vietnam (though that was more than enough--although as a corporal he might have only spent 6 mo with them, they cycled out officers, not sure which level though)....so he could have indeed served for a while and still be so young!