Anti-War

media type="custom" key="6281841" Reasons to oppose the war: Ways to protest the draft: Who protested the war: Music: "Mother, mother, there's too many of you crying Brother, brother, brother, there's far too many of you dyingYou know we've got to find a wayTo bring some lovin' here today, heyFather, father, we don't need to escalateWar is not the answer, for only love can conquer hate You know we've got to find a way to bring some lovin here today"  -"whats going on?" Marvin Gaye
 * People thought that the American forces were being inhumane, mostly because of the use of chemicals like napalm.
 * TET offensive, people thought the government had lied
 * Draft, people thought the draft wasn't fair
 * The war was expanded to Cambodia
 * A few people went to drastic measure to oppose the draft, practicing self immolation, where someone lights themselves on
 * Many people burned their draft cards, some even got arrested for it
 * veterans who were sent home from vietnam got together and went around the US protesting the war. one even said, "Here's my merit badges for murder."
 * at the beginning of the war the people who opposed the war were the obvious, the hippies who say never have war.
 * soon many people began to see that our soldiers were dying in vain, and the people around the draft age started protesting it.
 * veterans who came home wounded protested it, going around all over the us saying that they shouldnt have been there in the first place.

"There's battle lines being drawn Nobody's right if everybody's wrongYoung people speaking their minds Getting so much resistance from behind" - "for what it's worth" Buffalo Springsteen