Draft dodger

seen in a USA draftee into the Vietnam War. Soldiers are the epitome of loyalty, since they show their support even when faced with death itself. This degree of altruism is the climax of loyalty. Even on the opposite side of the spectrum, the draft-dodgers during Vietnam were loyal. However, they weren’t loyal to their country’s current state, but instead their own lives and/or beliefs. Loyalty was also seen in lives of conscientious objectors -- conscientious objectors who didn’t believe in the…

Back in those days once a boy turned 18 he was considered a man and had to register for the military draft. Muhammad Ali has always admitted to having trouble with reading and spelling, when he took the mental test given by the US military his IQ was scored as a 78 which was below the military threshold. But the stuttered were changed and allowed someone…

David Bowen was born just in time for the Red Scare in the 1950s that blanketed all of America and pitted neighbors and family against each other. If I was born at the same time in his home town of Virginia, we would have had a similar taste for life and nearly a carbon-copy of career choices. We would have both enlisted in the U.S. Marines and have been shipped off to the jungles of Vietnam. This would have been an unusual and petrifying experience for the both of us. We would have trudged…

“Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee,” is one of the best known quotes in the history of sports. Muhammad Ali stated the quote, and it stuck with him throughout his life and career. Muhammad was a professional boxer, and was even known as the greatest sports figure of the 20th century. Muhammad Ali, also known as Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr, was born on January 17, 1942 in Louisville, Kentucky. His mother’s name was Odessa Grady Clay and his father was Cassius Marcellus Clay Sr., who Muhammad…

During this time the Vietnam War was at its height. Muhammad Ali was drafted to go to the war, but he didn’t go because it was against his religion to fight in the war. He lost a lot of publicity and his heavyweight titles. Many saw Ali as a draft dodger, and his popularity plummeted. Banned from boxing for three years, Ali spoke out against the Vietnam War on college campuses. As public attitudes turned against the war, support for Ali grew. In 1970 the New York State Supreme Court ordered his…

This winter break I read the book Fortunate Son, an autobiography by Lewis B. Puller Jr. The book is a gripping tale of a young man’s Vietnam War experience as a marine. His service resulted in amputation of both legs above the knees and several lost fingers. Lewis B. Puller Jr. is the son of “Chesty” Puller, one of the most famous Marines in United States history. The book details the life of Lewis Jr. Beginning with rudimentary childhood memories and adolescence. This leads into his college…

worker, and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, a fish peddler, were convicted in 1921 of the murder of a Massachusetts paymaster and his guard. The jury and judge were prejudiced in some degree against the defendants because they were Italians, atheists, and draft dodgers. Sacco and Vanzetti Case was important, because it made the public suspicious about the concept of the Italian Anarchist. Ku Klux Klan…

The War of 1898 The War of 1898 was primarily influenced by geopolitics and imperialism. The United States like other Western countries entered a period of imperialism prior to the war in which they hoped to gain territory, resources, the spread of US ideals, and naval bases. It was a period of Social Darwinism in which imperialists believed they were superior and believed Anglo-Saxon principles should dominate. Spain had similar goals in regards to imperialism and expansion, and had already…

what Robinson did; he moved up to the Dodger’s and broke the color barrier that had existed for the last sixty years. Regardless of his success in the minor’s as well as his success in bringing in a large amount of crowds on opening day with the Dodgers (26,623 fans), Robinson still met many hardships due to racism. He and his family received death threats, pitchers hit him with their pitches, he got spiked, and hotels refused to house him, but through all of this, he stayed quiet and soon…

Historians often claim wars speed domestic change. When analyzing changes which occurred as a result of WWI, WWII, and the Cold War, this argument holds true as each war generated rapid social and policy change which would not have occurred without its influence. World War I indisputably accelerated domestic change within social and economic climates. For Progressives, the war “offered the possibility of reforming American society… instilling a sense of national unity and expanding social…