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The Vietnam war draft were two lotteries conducted by the Selective Service System of the United States on December 1, 1969, to determine the order of conscription to military service in the Vietnam War in 1970.
The military draft and the escalation of the Vietnam war played a major role in turning direct action resistance into a mass movement on college campuses in the mid-1960s, including at the University of Michigan.
Leading up to and during the Vietnam War, the draft evolved in how individuals could “defer” their service; in the way the draft system worked; and in the growth of popular resistance against a draft system.
The Draft during the Vietnam War (1964-1973) In 1960, 9.3 million American males were between the ages of 18 to 26—the age range targeted by the draft. [1] By 1965, 11 million American men were old enough to serve and by 1970 the number was over 14 million. [2]
Draft resistance in the United States reached its peak during the Vietnam War. By late 1967, U.S. casualties in Vietnam had reached 15,058 killed and 109,527 wounded.
Most of U.S. soldiers drafted during the Vietnam War were men from poor and working-class families. The least political power sections were mistreated. As a matter of fact, American forces in Vietnam included twenty-five percent poor, fifty-five percent working-class, twenty percent middle-class men, but very few came from upper-classes families.
From tying the knot to claiming a medical condition, here are some of the ways men tried to dodge the Vietnam War draft. On August 26, 1965, President Lyndon Johnson signed an executive order...