felt cheated and betrayed by Johnson because they had considered him as a peace candidate in 1964"(Thomas and Vistica 24 ). “One of The first anti-war protest was the Washington, 20,000-person march“( McMahon 303). Opposition to the war also caused students to resist the draft. They refused to be selected for the military because they thought the war was wrong. Many 19-year-old boys were dying. College students received deferments, or postponement of military services, because of their occupation. This drafting was unfair to the poor and working class, and minorities. Poor and working-class men were twice as likely to be drafted, and twice as likely to fight as the men from the middle class. As the number of men being drafted rose, more and more draft resistance groups formed in college campuses across the nation. People started to stand up for something that was wrong, and they weren't about to lose their own lives for a war in which they thought they didn't have any right to be there in the first place.As US troops in Vietnam increased, the antiwar movement also grew, and the American society continued to fight and suffer as it got more involved. I think the middle class people in American society were effected the most, because it was usually them that had to mourn over the loss of their dad, brother, or son. “In the spring of 1967, huge antiwar protests occurred in major cities such as New York City and San Francisco“(Alterman 11 ). Every kind of person participated in this march, priests, business people, and mothers. Hundreds of men burned their draft cards in these protests. As the US got deeper into the war, American Society was once again greatly affected, because it was divided over the war. “Hawks were people who supported the war in America, and wanted to win a military victory. Doves were people who opposed the war, and questioned the morality of the war“(Alterman 11) . The rest of the...
