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This 11 page paper discusses Lt. William Calley, the My Lai Massacre and the draft resistors as examples of what it was like in America in the 1960s. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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it, as well as the draft resistors, along with other matters to explain the "spirit" of the decade. Discussion The 1960s seem to be a decade of opposites: the womens
movement was getting underway as was the struggle for civil rights, which promised positive change. At the same time, the U.S. was bogged down in a never-ending war in Vietnam
which promised only negatives: death, destruction and a growing deficit to pay for it. Like most wars, this one started with most people backing it, but as it went on
and on, the country became polarized between those who supported it and those who wanted it to end. Somewhat surprisingly, the split was not so much between young and old
(i.e., the idealistic youngsters vs. the old war horses) but between, for want of better terms, liberals and conservatives. The more liberal Americans were asking what we were doing in
Southeast Asia to begin with, and why we continued to stay there when we were doing little good and our objectives were not clear. Conservatives insisted that America must have
a good reason for doing what it was doing, and that it was unpatriotic to question the government. Then as now, Americans were supposed to simply believe the reasons given
for our involvement in Vietnam and put their support behind the war. This type of thinking, that America is always correct no matter what it does, is a philosophy that
has a wide appeal for obvious reasons. If America is always right, then there is no need to pay attention to what it does, for it will always act fairly
and with justice. This is a very comfortable position to be in; unfortunately, its not always a correct assumption. As the war dragged on, opposition to it grew, but very
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