It's become popular to blame the antiwar movement for prolonging the Vietnam War and electing Richard Nixon. That's misguided.
When did it become fashionable to diminish the accomplishments of Vietnam War-era protesters by accusing them of inflated self-regard and delusions about what their activism accomplished? In my view, the situation in the Mideast is more nuanced and complex than the United States’ involvement in Vietnam ever was.
men had filed for conscientious objector status than were actually drafted. As many as 100,000 young men are believed to have left the country rather than fight in a morally indefensible conflict that had exacted a terrible cost in American and Vietnamese blood and treasure. Veterans like John Kerry, a Navy Swift boat commander horrified by what he’d seen and experienced in Vietnam, came home and campaigned against the war.
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