I was 18, sitting on a bunk aboard the U.S.S. Estes when we heard something about an incident in the Gulf of Tonkin, wherever that was (no Google in '64). One of ours had been attacked by North Vietnam torpedo boats, said the report. LBJ took that, ran with it, and it was game on in Vietnam.
Whew, when I think back on all that followed. GO VOLS, GO VETS!