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Very interesting piece. As a white history major, maybe I'm biased, but '''I've always looked at Vietnam as a class war in terms of who was drafted and sent over, not that people were selected due to race. Unfortunately, because more whites could afford to go to college, it gives the appearance of being an unjust system for African-Americans. I've known a number of Vietnam vets over the years. The common thread is not their race, but the fact that most of the kids drafted were poor''', and when they returned, as Mrs. Craig implied, they were treated with contempt and disdain as baby killers. Mrs. Craig's reminscences in regards to the assasination of Dr. King and the subsequent riots were poignant. I highly reccomend Dr. Crawley's post WWII history class in regard to this. I remember Dr. Crawley giving a vivid lecture regarding 1968. The events as they unfolded, with the assasination of Dr. King and Robert Kennedy less than two months apart, the nightly war footage, the riots, and the riots outside the 1968 Chicago Democratic convention all gave observors at that moment the idea that the world was falling apart, at least in the U.S. I think the title of that web page, "The Whole World is Watching," was lifted from the chants of protestors at the 1968 convention. That entire war in general was an experience that I believe scarred an entire generation. | Very interesting piece. As a white history major, maybe I'm biased, but '''I've always looked at Vietnam as a class war in terms of who was drafted and sent over, not that people were selected due to race. Unfortunately, because more whites could afford to go to college, it gives the appearance of being an unjust system for African-Americans. I've known a number of Vietnam vets over the years. The common thread is not their race, but the fact that most of the kids drafted were poor''', and when they returned, as Mrs. Craig implied, they were treated with contempt and disdain as baby killers. Mrs. Craig's reminscences in regards to the assasination of Dr. King and the subsequent riots were poignant. I highly reccomend Dr. Crawley's post WWII history class in regard to this. I remember Dr. Crawley giving a vivid lecture regarding 1968. The events as they unfolded, with the assasination of Dr. King and Robert Kennedy less than two months apart, the nightly war footage, the riots, and the riots outside the 1968 Chicago Democratic convention all gave observors at that moment the idea that the world was falling apart, at least in the U.S. I think the title of that web page, "The Whole World is Watching," was lifted from the chants of protestors at the 1968 convention. That entire war in general was an experience that I believe scarred an entire generation. | ||
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| + | I felt that this article gave the reader a veiw of the Vietnam war that is rarely looked at. My (suburban upper middle-class white) mentality has always thought of the draft as something that if you didnt want to go, you simply had to go to college. I actually had never thought that if one couldn't afford college then they had no choice than to fight in a war they might not agree with at all. I've personally never really given thought to the draft and the effect it had on lower class people and during that time, specifically minorities. --Julie Robert | ||
