• GriffithDidNothingWrong [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    10 months ago

    People opposed the draft. Vietnam itself didn’t see much more opposition than any other conflict America decided to stick its nose into, they just didn’t like the idea that they or their family members might be expected to go fight in it

    • combat_brandonism [they/them]@hexbear.net
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      Vietnam itself didn’t see much more opposition than any other conflict America decided to stick its nose into

      except by the conscripts, who first made the ground war untenable by organizing and direct action and then made the air war untenable by organizing and direct action