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John Sibley Butler. The Vietnam War saw the highest proportion of blacks ever to serve in an American war. During the height of the U.S. involvement, 1965-69, blacks, who formed 11 percent of the American population, made up 12.6 percent of the soldiers in Vietnam.
Family connections with the military are the most likely in the South, where 64 percent reported having a family member who served. That compares with 56 percent of those in the Northeast, and 57 percent in the West.or adults over 50 who said they had family members who served in the military, those members were likely to have served before the draft ended. Some parts of the population are more likely than others to have a service member or veteran in their family.