Conscientious Objectors During The Vietnam War

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My original topic was the conscientious objectors in the Vietnam War, but I decided to broaden my topic to include the Selective Service System and conscientious objectors from World War I, World War II, the Vietnam War, Korean War, and the Cold War. I decided to broaden the topic, because I felt that there was not enough information during the just the Vietnam War alone. If I had tried to stretch the information out, it would have not of been a quality paper. My paper will be based around; how the Selective Service System and the contentious objector laws have changed and why they have changed. I became interested in this topic when I decided to do something related to the Vietnam War. Dr. Shedd told me some intersecting topics that were related to the Vietnam War. The topic of conscientious objectors really stuck in my mind, because though I knew about conscientious objectors, I had never look into them. As I started my research, I became more interested in the topic. …show more content…

Most of the books I found online only had a portion of the book available for free, so I only read the sections available. While this limited the information I could get from the book, it had enough available that I got most of the information from the book. I also used the online books that the library offered online. I have used EBSCO and JSTOR to find many of the articles I have read. I found some court documents, from court cases that involved either contentious objectors or the Selective Service System, which have been uploaded to the

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