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Arguments Against The US Involvement In Vietnam

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One of the reasons for the mass majority of Americans against the United States involvement in Vietnam was the draft process that was either the working class men or men who are poor was being drafted while the wealthy eligible men were able to get around this process. The other that angered most of the American public was the age restriction was lowered from 26 to 19 years’ old (Gillon, Steven M. web), a lot of those who were protesting against the United States involvement in Vietnam had strong concerns, such as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. who in March of 1967 led a protest in Chicago against the United States involvement said that “war was a blasphemy against all that America stands for” (Hall, Simon, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr). This brought
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