Reply #8: But a point made was lack of the draft

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I think that the anti Vietnam movement really gained momentum when all the college deferments were canceled. I think that when the Civil Rights movement started, one of the concerns was that, just as it is today, minority were unproportionally getting injured and killed, as many whites got a college deferment.

Once the draft was expanded, this was when students went out to the street. And if there is a draft now, we will see many more support to end the war in Iraq - or whatever our presence there is now called.