Aftermath
Some people who opposed American involvement in the Vietnam War treated U.S. soldiers and veterans poorly. They tended to blame American troops for the tragic situation in Vietnam, instead of blaming the government leaders who had sent them there. "Some protesters simply did not make a clear distinction between the war and those who fought it, and they regarded American soldiers as ready and willing killers or ignorant dupes," Christian G. Appy explains in his book Working-Class War: American Combat Soldiers and Vietnam. In some instances, antiwar protesters reportedly spit on returning veterans and called them baby-killers. It was not an uncommon scene for returning soldiers to be confronted at airports by protesters carrying signs with anti-war slogans. The protesters used the signs to attack the soldiers and even threw urine at the veterans. In some instances, soldiers were refused service in restaurants. Pic Link: -https://depts.washington.edu/antiwar/vietnam_history.shtml -Lily |
1970 Rich and powerful figures could exempt their sons from the draft, while poor young men had no choice but to follow orders and fight a war they didn’t believe in.
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1969Pressure from the United States for New Zealand to send troops to the Vietnam War gave rise to a vigorous local protest movement from the late 1960s.
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1970'sAnti-war protest
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