College Life During the Vietnam War
Emily Mata
Mrs. Otten
E Block English
17 February 2017
When I first learned that we would be interviewing someone for a paper, I immediately drew a blank and had no idea who to talk to. My relatives that are over the age of 60 don’t speak English and my neighbors quite frankly terrify me, so I decided to interview Dr. Kohutek. On a Friday afternoon I walked into his office and asked if I could interview him. HE was very easy to talk to and had great insight regarding the time period that we are reading about. We sat down at a table and all it took was the simple question of “Were you in the war?” to get a story started.
From a very young age, Kenneth James Kohutek had always aspired …show more content…
The regret he had about the war was a contributing reason as to why he went to work at a penitentiary, where he had been held hostage and assaulted. He wanted to feel useful and serve his country in a different way. As previously mentioned, in lots of families it was almost customary for young men to go off to war, and not going to war was a big deal, more so in some places rather than others. With protests however more and more young men at college campuses such as UNT were saying no to war and questioning the legitimacy of intervention in Vietnam and its surrounding countries. As history will show, these protests are an integral part of the events that take place and eventually lead up to the removal of troops in Vietnam.
During the Vietnam War era, tensions were on the rise as anti-war efforts expanded and spread to college campuses all though out the country. At the height of the tension was the Kent State shooting, also known as the Kent State Massacre, which took place on May 4th 1970. The days that led up to May 4th were full of sit-ins, protests, and civil unrest as a reaction the President Nixon’s recent decision to put boots on the ground in
Emily Mata
Mrs. Otten
E Block English
17 February 2017
When I first learned that we would be interviewing someone for a paper, I immediately drew a blank and had no idea who to talk to. My relatives that are over the age of 60 don’t speak English and my neighbors quite frankly terrify me, so I decided to interview Dr. Kohutek. On a Friday afternoon I walked into his office and asked if I could interview him. HE was very easy to talk to and had great insight regarding the time period that we are reading about. We sat down at a table and all it took was the simple question of “Were you in the war?” to get a story started.
From a very young age, Kenneth James Kohutek had always aspired …show more content…
The regret he had about the war was a contributing reason as to why he went to work at a penitentiary, where he had been held hostage and assaulted. He wanted to feel useful and serve his country in a different way. As previously mentioned, in lots of families it was almost customary for young men to go off to war, and not going to war was a big deal, more so in some places rather than others. With protests however more and more young men at college campuses such as UNT were saying no to war and questioning the legitimacy of intervention in Vietnam and its surrounding countries. As history will show, these protests are an integral part of the events that take place and eventually lead up to the removal of troops in Vietnam.
During the Vietnam War era, tensions were on the rise as anti-war efforts expanded and spread to college campuses all though out the country. At the height of the tension was the Kent State shooting, also known as the Kent State Massacre, which took place on May 4th 1970. The days that led up to May 4th were full of sit-ins, protests, and civil unrest as a reaction the President Nixon’s recent decision to put boots on the ground in