what was a day in the life of a vietnam war protester like?

Answer 1

I tried to answer this question but I was left with no answers that you'd understand.
It was a hopeless, useless, no- win "policing" (NOT declared a war) for the thousands of military men/women who had NO choice in the matter but to be drafted and serve.unless they wanted to leave the countryand be declared cowards. Most of us just wanted Nam to be DECLARED A War and let our military loose to do what they had to do and have the backing of their country. Our guys were given a raw deal then and many of them are are still paying for that damn mess both emotionaly and physically.
.Please... don't let this Iraq "war" go on, they ( Iraq/Iran )don't care if we die or not so why bother?? We won''t change a thing for them, they could care less how or even if we survive their war...we just add to our own heartaches
.When our own government sends our men out with sub standard weapons and vehicles that aren't made to protect against weapons used against them...how do you think we felt on a daily basis of reading lists of the names of people "killed in action"many that you yourselves might even be related to in one way or another.
A day without war is like a day without sunshine.
By the way , drugs are more prevalent in the schools of today then we had to deal with. I did not use "drugs" nor did anyone I associated with. We weren't the flower power group or the yuppies or the yippies(?) that many people tag us as. Yhank You

Answer 2

A day like any other. You have to remember that protesters came from across the spectrum of society.

Also, and more importantly, there weren't protests every day. As the war went on, there were more protests, but often coordinated to happen on the same day. But even then it was every few weeks, if not months, between organized protests.

Answer 3

Having lived through much of it, it was a typical schedule of going to university classes in the morning, lunching with other protesters, going to meetings in the evenings with other protesters to point of strategies and ideas ... and every day, every single day, hearing that twenty or thirty or fifty more Americans had died in Vietnam (none of this two or three every other day like in Iraq). It was a life of trying to be normal and regular and a life of knowing that nothing was normal and regular so one would have to learn all they could, study, meet others, and always, always listen to music (no, drugs were not as wide-spread as many today think or hope they were ... drug usage is MUCH higher today than then)

Answer 4

From what I remember when I saw hundreds of them daily here in Boston, at the Boston Common and in Harvard Square, the hippies and yippie war protesters smoked a lot of dope, didn't bother much with hygeine, and yelled and screamed a lot into megaphones and loved to carry signs.

They wore 'Ho Chi Mihn' sandals: rubber tires cut out with bycicles inner tubes as straps on their feet.

I saw another kind of protest around 1962/63 when my mother took me across Boston Common to see a large gathering listening to a black man and a black woman speak. I stood there and watched the black man talk for about half an hour and then my mother took me home. The next day I found out it was Martin Luther King and Angela Davis.

Answer 5

The conflict of the '60s and 70's grow to be very unpopular like this one....the antiwar protestors of that day were protesting the actual undeniable truth that the squaddies and marines were there because they were forced by draft...this conflict is all a volunteer armed forces...the undesirable undeniable truth that our sons and daughter are in harms way won't be able to be surpassed over, despite the indisputable fact that they joined the armed forces by decision..for protestors to publish the type of educate of protest might want to bypass adversarial to what our troops volunteered to do to serve their us of a. also, the enemy flourishes on what the electorate do again homestead, to provide the enemy this area might want to bypass in the route of the defeat of our little children operating in a antagonistic global!

Answer 6

alot of pot no showers and your arms wrapped around the biggest oak u can find..also a really foul odor

Answer 7

It started off with a bagel.

Answer 8

idk