The U.S Involment in Vietnam

As I have been looking in to this topic some things really stand out to me. These Things are that the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam was and still is a major topic between the government and the citizens. many people think that we went in there and we shouldn't of we sent thousands of men to their deaths, but on the other hand we didn't lose a battle in Vietnam. Some of the pros of the Vietnam war are it reduced the voting age to 18 because people thought if you can die and fight for your country then you should be able to vote. It also made the U.S. military a voluntary military before then it was the draft. Some of the cons were 58,000 lives were lost in the conflict and another 350,000 casualties were taken. Between 1 and 2 million Vietnamese lost there lives. The war badly damaged the U.S. economy. The military moral was weakened along with it made many Americans suspicious of the  governments true intentions. Some thing that could be considered both pro and con of the war are the Wars Power Act which states that the President of the United States of America must get congresses approval before the U.S.A. can fight over seas. Most of this information comes from http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/subtitles.cfm?titleID=71. So the U.S. involvement of the Vietnam war has many Pros, but an almost equal of Cons.