Most people didn't go to college in the 1960s until the Viet Nam War

If you want to know why EVERYONE who didn't want to die in Viet Nam went to college in the 1960s it is pretty obvious. People who absolutely hated the idea of going to college went too and their girlfriends went too just because all the men smart enough not to die over in Viet Nam went to college. This is a sad thing to say but it's also true.

But, if you wonder historically why so many people both men and women got bachelors degrees, Master's degrees and PHds then in late 1960s and early 1970s it is mostly because they didn't want to die horribly in Viet Nam then. Although this is mostly true of the boys and men. Women followed the men into college hoping to marry up into a better life mostly then. However, once they had careers many of them started to break through the "Glass Ceiling" in many different ways in to new and amazing careers.

If you understand this one thing about the 1960s and 1970s you are learning a lot about those who survived without getting PTSD (at least from going to a foreign war at that time). There are still so many men still walking the streets homeless from the Viet Nam war still 50 years later now only now they are in their 70s up to 80 years of age. What put them on the streets permanently? PTSD from the Viet Nam War. This is what happens to many in any war our men and women fight in now and always has been true and likely always will be true.