Will we have a President who served in Vietnam?

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Webb would be the best shot at it but in all likeliness, no. The Vietnam vets are getting old and a lot of them were turned off by politics coming home for obvious reasons so the ones that did get elected are few in number and don't have the name recognition of a John Kerry or a Jim Webb, for example.

Maybe for similar reasons we never had a World War I vet president.

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Webb would be the best shot at it but in all likeliness, no. The Vietnam vets are getting old and a lot of them were turned off by politics coming home for obvious reasons so the ones that did get elected are few in number and don't have the name recognition of a John Kerry or a Jim Webb, for example.

Maybe for similar reasons we never had a World War I vet president.

You did. See above.

ouch, missed that...I guess that I tend not to think of Truman and Eisenhower as not being WW1 vets since they weren't of the generation that actually served in the trenches. We didn't really have a president of the Hemmingway/Lost Generation.

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Being a veteran of any war has no appeal to Americans post-Vietnam for obvious reasons. I'm pretty sure no "War on Terror" veterans will take the presidency-especially Iraq veterans.

I could see Seth Moulton having a shot at some point down the line. I really don't think that the Iraq War is going to be as big of an issue election after election for our generation the same way that Vietnam was for the boomers because there wasn't a draft.