Draftee During The Vietnam War
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Vietnam War Stories
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Author : Ricky Greener
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-05-30
Vietnam War Stories written by Ricky Greener and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-30 with categories.
Military conscription, commonly known as "the draft," is one of the most complex topics related to the Vietnam War. It is emotional for many people - those who chose to serve when drafted, those who sought deferments to delay or avoid serving, to those who refused to serve and went to jail or left the country. Although statistics from different sources often conflict, it is clear that the draft was grossly unfair to segments of the population, especially early in the war. This book details the rigors of pre-war training, enduring combat from the jungles northeast of Saigon to the Mekong Delta, and living with demons brought on by the war. After the author's service overseas, he returns home to learn Vietnam Veterans are shunned and shamed by the general public. Wilson provides insight to lessons learned from the Vietnam War that should always be remembered; the underlying message being, never force men to war unless our liberty and freedom are compromised and there is no other choice!
Draftee During The Vietnam War
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Author : Louie Thulin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-05-30
Draftee During The Vietnam War written by Louie Thulin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-30 with categories.
Military conscription, commonly known as "the draft," is one of the most complex topics related to the Vietnam War. It is emotional for many people - those who chose to serve when drafted, those who sought deferments to delay or avoid serving, to those who refused to serve and went to jail or left the country. Although statistics from different sources often conflict, it is clear that the draft was grossly unfair to segments of the population, especially early in the war. This book details the rigors of pre-war training, enduring combat from the jungles northeast of Saigon to the Mekong Delta, and living with demons brought on by the war. After the author's service overseas, he returns home to learn Vietnam Veterans are shunned and shamed by the general public. Wilson provides insight to lessons learned from the Vietnam War that should always be remembered; the underlying message being, never force men to war unless our liberty and freedom are compromised and there is no other choice!
Random Destiny How The Vietnam War Draft Lottery Shaped A Generation
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Author : Wesley Abney
language : en
Publisher: Vernon Press
Release Date : 2019-03-30
Random Destiny How The Vietnam War Draft Lottery Shaped A Generation written by Wesley Abney and has been published by Vernon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-30 with History categories.
This book provides a concise but thorough summary of how the selective service system worked from 1965 through 1973, and also demonstrates how this selective process, during a highly unpopular war, steered major life choices of millions of young men seeking deferrals based on education, occupation, marital and family status, sexual orientation, and more. This book explains each category of deferral and its resulting “ripple effect” across society. Putting a human face on these sociological trends, the book also includes a number of brief personal anecdotes from men in each category, told from a remove of 40 years or more, when the lifelong effects of youthful decisions prompted by the draft have become evident. There are few books which address the military draft of the Vietnam years, most notably CHANCE AND CIRCUMSTANCE: The Draft, the War and the Vietnam Generation, by Baskir and Strauss (1978). This early study of draft-age men discusses how they were socially channeled by the selective service system. RANDOM DESTINY follows up on this premise and draws from numerous later studies of men in the lottery pool, to create the definitive portrait of the draft and its long-term personal and social effects. RANDOM DESTINY presents an in-depth explanation of the selective service system in its final years. It also provides a comprehensive yet personal portrait of how the draft and the lottery steered a generation of young lives into many different paths, from combat to conscientious objection, from teaching to prison, from the pulpit to the Canadian border, from public health to gay liberation. It is the only recent book which demonstrates how American military conscription, in the time of an unpopular war, profoundly influenced a generation and a society over the decades that followed.
Called To Serve
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Author : Tom Weiner
language : en
Publisher: Levellers Press
Release Date : 2014-05-23
Called To Serve written by Tom Weiner and has been published by Levellers Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-23 with History categories.
Stories of men and women confronted by the Vietnam War. Contains personal stories of Vietnam War Veterans, people who fled the country, people who refused to go to war, people who beat the draft, people who obtained Conscientious Objector status, and people who loved and supported them.
Rough Draft
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Author : Amy J. Rutenberg
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2019-09-15
Rough Draft written by Amy J. Rutenberg and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-15 with History categories.
Rough Draft draws the curtain on the race and class inequities of the Selective Service during the Vietnam War. Amy J. Rutenberg argues that policy makers' idealized conceptions of Cold War middle-class masculinity directly affected whom they targeted for conscription and also for deferment. Federal officials believed that college educated men could protect the nation from the threat of communism more effectively as civilians than as soldiers. The availability of deferments for this group mushroomed between 1945 and 1965, making it less and less likely that middle-class white men would serve in the Cold War army. Meanwhile, officials used the War on Poverty to target poorer and racialized men for conscription in the hopes that military service would offer them skills they could use in civilian life. As Rutenberg shows, manpower policies between World War II and the Vietnam War had unintended consequences. While some men resisted military service in Vietnam for reasons of political conscience, most did so because manpower polices made it possible. By shielding middle-class breadwinners in the name of national security, policymakers militarized certain civilian roles—a move that, ironically, separated military service from the obligations of masculine citizenship and, ultimately, helped kill the draft in the United States.
Draftee
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Author : John W. Wilson
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2012-05-04
Draftee written by John W. Wilson and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-04 with History categories.
This book describes what it was like to be drafted and sent to Vietnam in 1967. 1.7 million American boys and men, age 19 to 25, were drafted from 1965 to 1973 during the Vietnam conflict. 648,500 of those draftees actually went to Vietnam, a war many believe should never happened; especially a situation where boys were forced to serve or be sent to prison. John Wilson, then a 19 year old, was one of those draftees. While fortunate to have come home alive, in DRAFTEE, Wilson chronicles his life changing experience that has an impact on his life to this day. His compelling story details the rigors of pre-war training, enduring combat from the jungles northeast of Saigon to the Mekong Delta, and living with demons brought on by the war. After his service overseas, he returns home to learn Vietnam Veterans are shunned and shamed by the general public. Wilson provides insight to lessons learned from the Vietnam War that should always be remembered; the underlying message being, never force men to war unless our liberty and freedom is compromised and there is no other choice! At a time when our troops are depleted from multiple tours of combat, DRAFTEE raises timely concern that the DRAFT must be considered a last resort before it is enacted again. If you have a draft age son you should read this book.
Draftee
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Author : Mac Burakowski
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-05-30
Draftee written by Mac Burakowski and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-30 with categories.
Military conscription, commonly known as "the draft," is one of the most complex topics related to the Vietnam War. It is emotional for many people - those who chose to serve when drafted, those who sought deferments to delay or avoid serving, to those who refused to serve and went to jail or left the country. Although statistics from different sources often conflict, it is clear that the draft was grossly unfair to segments of the population, especially early in the war. This book details the rigors of pre-war training, enduring combat from the jungles northeast of Saigon to the Mekong Delta, and living with demons brought on by the war. After the author's service overseas, he returns home to learn Vietnam Veterans are shunned and shamed by the general public. Wilson provides insight to lessons learned from the Vietnam War that should always be remembered; the underlying message being, never force men to war unless our liberty and freedom are compromised and there is no other choice!
Last Draftees
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Author : Keith Rogers
language : en
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
Release Date : 2020-12-04
Last Draftees written by Keith Rogers and has been published by Page Publishing Inc this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-04 with Fiction categories.
Our book is about lessons learned from decades of war in U.S. history and the consequences brought on by the draft, otherwise known as conscription. The Vietnam War (conflict) was the vehicle that brought to light not only widespread corruption associated with conscription but also our political shortcomings as a country. More importantly it shines a spotlight on abuse of power and the racial divide in the United States during the span of three U.S. presidents -- the Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon administrations.
Confronting The War Machine
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Author : Michael S. Foley
language : en
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Release Date : 2003
Confronting The War Machine written by Michael S. Foley and has been published by Univ of North Carolina Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with History categories.
Focusing on the draft resistance movement in Boston in 1967-68, this study argues that these acts of mass civil disobedience turned the tide in the antiwar movement by drawing the Johnson administration into a confrontation with activists who were largely young, middle-class, liberal, and from suburban backgrounds--the core of Johnson's constituency.
Working Class War
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Author : Christian G. Appy
language : en
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Release Date : 2000-11-09
Working Class War written by Christian G. Appy and has been published by Univ of North Carolina Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-11-09 with History categories.
No one can understand the complete tragedy of the American experience in Vietnam without reading this book. Nothing so underscores the ambivalence and confusion of the American commitment as does the composition of our fighting forces. The rich and the powerful may have supported the war initially, but they contributed little of themselves. That responsibility fell to the poor and the working class of America.--Senator George McGovern "Reminds us of the disturbing truth that some 80 percent of the 2.5 million enlisted men who served in Vietnam--out of 27 million men who reached draft age during the war--came from working-class and impoverished backgrounds. . . . Deals especially well with the apparent paradox that the working-class soldiers' families back home mainly opposed the antiwar movement, and for that matter so with few exceptions did the soldiers themselves.--New York Times Book Review "[Appy's] treatment of the subject makes it clear to his readers--almost as clear as it became for the soldiers in Vietnam--that class remains the tragic dividing wall between Americans.--Boston Globe