-Anti-War+Movement+and+Students-


 * __ Anti-War Movement Begins  __**

The students were involved in the Anti-War campaign during the Vietnam War era. With strong mind sets and with their heads held up high, they were confident and courageous in their battle against the government to stop the War. As the war was a very controversial topic for people back home in America, the many students took action to their own hands as they created Anti-War groups such as the Students of Non-Violence Action (SNVA), Vietnam Day Committee (VDC) as well as organized **__teach-ins__** at their universities to educate others about issues on Vietnam. These __**teach-ins**__ usually escalated to become violent to extents such as to take over the universities.

Many students who were of age for the Military Draft, they were forced to succeed in college with the threat of being sent to Vietnam. The pressure from the War had changed students to dislike the War and provoked them to take action. Many college professors also found strong pressures to help students with their grades. With the draft initiated, many students as well as those of age found loop holes in the government system to try to evade themselves from being sent to the conflict. In the duration of the war, over 10~20 million people evaded the draft. These people were commonly known as Draft Dodgers. Strong opposition made by the students soon escalated into violent protests. Public Draft Burnings were popular actions, in which one showed the rest of the people how much they opposed the War, until they were deemed illigal by law. Student protests sometimes increased to a level of violence and conflicts with the Police as well as Government Soldiers. One of the most tragic confrontations between the students and the government troops occured at the __**Kent State Massacre**__.

However, many High School students and young men who were too poor to go to college or failed to evade the War, they had no choice but to go to Vietnam and pray that they came home safely. __**Students whom went to War**__

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