Because they wanted peace and did not think that we had any business being in Vietnam and they didn't seem to care what our men were having to deal with over there.
They didn't want to be drafted to fight the war.
The war was wrong. It never was a war, but a police action and men were drafted to fight in an illegal undeclared war.
Abbie Hoffman
They've been pardoned and are free from any charges.
The draft protesters.
Protesters charged that American lives and money were being wasted on an un-just war. The government of South Vietnam, they said, was no better than the Vietcong or the North Vietnamese.
War protesters.
998,742 people
Anti-war demonstration and draft resistance protesters.
They probably fuelled the protesters, as they did in the US.
Draft dodgers, Doves, Hippies, Protesters, etc.
Patriots or supporters of the war would get the same treatment as the GI's did from the anti-war protesters.
They burned their draft cards.
derek steller smells
The war was wrong. It never was a war, but a police action and men were drafted to fight in an illegal undeclared war.
Jackson State
Abbie Hoffman
They mirrored the US; protests, etc.