Society didn't really care...as long as society wasn't involved. Once members of "society" began to get drafted into the military system...then they got angry. (E.g. protests, riots, demonstrations, etc. etc. etc.).
Dr. Robert Lifton claimed that American society sent out a message to the veterans of the Vietnam war that they were not appreciated. Unlike soldiers from past wars who came home to adoring masses and huge parades, the Vietnam veterans were reviled.
Sparta trained their soldiers from age 7 and had them serving in the army at age 20. They killed all the weak children.
The Vietnam War deflected people from the aims of his Great Society.
Members of society were being drafted to fight the Vietnam War; consequently, they were against it.
The Republic of SOUTH Vietnam was a free society; NORTH Vietnam was communist based.
Republic of South Vietnam. A free democratic society.
Australian society mirrored American society after the war, on a smaller scale, due to population differences.
The military was a reflection of the society that spawned them.
South Vietnam was an agriculture based society (a farming life).
The Jesuits, Soldiers of Christ, and Foot Soldiers of the Pope.
There is a huge difference between not serving society and harming society.Couch potatoes might not serve society. People who don´t pay their taxes might not serve society. Everyone short of an inspirational philanthropist could be said to be serving themselves rather than serving society.
Gandhiji helped through his ideas to understand in the understanding society.