The Draft, Duty, and Dissent: G.I. Resistance to War

Published: June 27, 2017, 3:21 p.m.

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It was the 1960s \\u2013 and throughout the United States, opposition to the War in Vietnam was growing.\\xa0 The Draft forced young men to make a choice about their own participation in the war. And many chose to resist.

On today\\u2019s Making Contact we look back at the resistance to the Draft to the War in Vietnam.\\xa0 What form did that resistance take?\\xa0 And what lessons are people bringing to building resistance to war and empire among soldiers today, in the absence of an official draft? \\xa0

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