declared he hopes his legacy is that he reduced the chances of war and said he was motivated to do so 'because of Vietnam'.Biden, 81, was first elected to the U.S. in 1972 at the age of 29, when the Vietnam War was raging and hundreds of thousands of Americans were being conscripted into the military.He himself never served in the conflict, instead receiving five student deferments and then a disqualification on medical grounds.
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