the Vietnam War. The war had been over for Americans since 1973; North Vietnam defeated South Vietnam, reuniting the country by force in 1975. Still, Georgia Gov. Jimmy Carter believed the fates of thousands of war resisters, draft evaders and deserters were the war's "unfinished bus...
As growing numbers of young men were conscripted to fight in the war in Vietnam, a hit song helped drive the push to lower the voting age to match the draft age.
Random Destiny: How the Vietnam War Draft Lottery Shaped A Generation,by Wes Abney.This new book explains the rules of the draft and the lottery during the Vietnam years, and demonstrates how this process, during a highly unpopular war, steered major life choices of millions of young men. ...
1969 | Vietnam War Draft Lottery Your draft number 45 was called in 1970.If your birthday was ...
The end of the war and resumption of the Third Indochina War would precipitate the Vietnamese boat people and the larger Indochina refugee crisis, which saw millions of refugees leave Indochina (mainly southern Vietnam), an estimated 250,000 of whom perished at sea. Within the U.S, the ...
In 1965, David Miller publically burnt his draft card (call-up notice) and was sentenced to two and a half years in prison. His actions inspired others and throughout America, Anti-Vietnam War groups organised meetings where large groups of young men burnt their draft cards. Between 1963 an...
40 Years since End of Vietnam War, U.S. Draft Dodgers Left Their Mark in CanadaVietnam War draft dodgers in Canada--MONTREAL - When 22-year-old Bill King returned home to...Valiante, Giuseppe
De Lanessan telegraphed: “Found no record of any documents relating to the draft railway contract.” And for good reason, since such a contract did not exist! Only studies of the route had been authorised. The exact role of the Governor General in this whole story is not very clear. In...
:This article focuses on the draft-avoidance behavior of U.S. citizens during the Vietnam War. Throughout most of the Vietnam War, men who were in college could obtain deferments that delayed their eligibility for conscription. It was widely believed by contemporaneous observers that college defe...
On Jan. 27, 1973, an agreement to end the war and restore peace in Vietnam was signed in Paris. A. G. MAZAEV [updated] SOURCESDemokraticheskaia respublika V’etnam: Konstitutsiia, zakonodatel’nye akty, dokumenty. Moscow, 1955. (Translated from Vietnamese, French, and English.)III ...