"support for our boys in Vietnam." (Brown, 34). The antiwar movement spread directly among the combat troops in Vietnam, who began to wear peace symbols and flash peace signs and movement salutes. Some units even organized their own demonstrations to link up with the movement at home (Schlight, 45). In October of 1965 a national “Weekend of Protest” was held during which there was a large parade for peace in New York and major demonstrations in California, Wisconsin and Washington , D.C. In New York a twenty two years man, name Davis J. Miller became the first person to burn his draft registration card publicly. The police arrested him and many other people who did that after he did.(Lawson ,The U.S. in the Vietnam war,70,71) In Washington a young Quaker , Norman Morrison, went one step further and stage the ultimate protest by burning himself to death.Also in the nation’s capital some 20,000 protestors paraded before the White House chanting “Hey !Hey! LBJ! how many kids did you Kill today”.(Lawson,The United States in the Vietnan, 70) The antiwar feeling was becoming more popular at home. By the middle of 1967, many Americans began telling that the original involvement in Vietnam had been a costly mistake. The most important antiwar event of 1967 was the March on the Pentagon in October, which was a turning point for the Johnson’s administration. And for Johnson, only a little more than a quarter of the population approved of his handling the war in 1968. Many of those who supported him were the hawks . The hawks were the group of people that supported the war. They wanted the American troops to continue the bombings over Vietnam.In 1970 hundreds of college campuses paralyzed America's higher-education system. The Kent State tragedy ignited a nationwide campus disaster. Between May 4 and May 8, campuses experienced an average of 100 demonstrations a day, 350 campus strikes, 536 colleges shut...
