1. Be ready for a warm up! Half sheet is fine!

2. 3 OBSERVATIONS, 2 QUESTIONS, 1 INFERENCE

3. VIETNAM WAR AT HOME

4. DRAFT
1.5 Million men drafted
By 1965 more were drafted than volunteered
More of certain demographics

5. My Vietnam War Story: Dwight F. Davis
....During my time at Camp Enari, I had occasion to read a newspaper from the States. The remarkable thing about this newspaper was that it had a story about the new draft system. Beginning in the Fall of 1969, guys were to be drafted by lottery according to their birthday. College deferments had been eliminated the previous year. I was to learn the significance of the new draft system a couple of years later in Graduate School where we read a book entitled Little Groups of Friends and Neighbors. It was about the old Army draft system. It turned out that the draft system was very corrupt. There were draft boards in every community that decided who got drafted and the result was that draftees were disproportionately the sons of the poor, the working poor, and the nonwhite. I had believed that, if you were 18 and were not in college getting a college deferment or did not have a physical problem that made you 4-F (unable to serve in the military due to physical problems), you got drafted. That was not the way it was. Years later, upon reflection, I concluded that the expansion of the anti-war movement, which began in 1969, and the pressure from the general public, not just college students, to get out of Vietnam, was directly related to the beginning of the draft of the sons of the middle class. I still believe that.

6. DOVES VS. HAWKS Doves: against war Hawks: for war
Professors, college students, etc.
Hawks: for war
Containment

7. PROTESTS College campuses Strongest anti-war opinions Kent State
“teach-ins”
Credibility gap?

8. PRESIDENT NIXON
1968 election

9. 26TH AMENDMENT
July 7, 1971
lowered voting age from 21 to 18
“old enough to fight, old enough to vote”

10. VETERANS RETURN Often didn’t receive appreciation when returning home
Physical and psychological disorders
Decade later, receive honor and appreciation
Vietnam Veterans Memorial: 1982