What are the current effects and possible long term effects of vietnamese war?

At the time, the immediate consequences were being DRAFTED into the US Military and being crippled or killed in Vietnam. The long term consequences, some of which were (are) positive: the ending of the military draft (going to an ALL Volunteer Military), and lowering the age of a United States adult to age 18 FROM age 21. In the 1960's, one of the MANY slogans were, "...we're old enough to die for our country, but not old enough to vote!" Thousands of young men under the age of 19 perished in Vietnam, and they were too young to vote. There was a 1960's song mentioning it; the Politician says "...Sometimes I wonder what I'm a going to do, but...there ain't no cure for the summer times blues... I'd like to help you son, but you're to young to vote!"