The major opposition the movement posed against the Vietnam draft was the amount of men it demanded, netting about “forty-thousand men each month”. To support this, taxes had also been raised up to a total of “twenty-five billion dollars.” A major outset for protesting in the war was when “one-hundred thousand” protested at the Lincoln Memorial, and “thirty-thousand thousand”, then went on to riot at the Pentagon. Similar to this, war veterans who were physically scarred or disabled were shown on live television throwing medals away, telling terrifying war stories to discourage volunteers, and generally showing the grotesque side of war, winning more protesters to the protesting movement each
The major opposition the movement posed against the Vietnam draft was the amount of men it demanded, netting about “forty-thousand men each month”. To support this, taxes had also been raised up to a total of “twenty-five billion dollars.” A major outset for protesting in the war was when “one-hundred thousand” protested at the Lincoln Memorial, and “thirty-thousand thousand”, then went on to riot at the Pentagon. Similar to this, war veterans who were physically scarred or disabled were shown on live television throwing medals away, telling terrifying war stories to discourage volunteers, and generally showing the grotesque side of war, winning more protesters to the protesting movement each