Veterans+Against+the+War+CNW

In the opinion of most of the Vietnam veterans the Vietnam war was a very stupid idea. So, in 1967,six Vietnam veterans organized a group called the Vietnam Veterans Against the War(VVAW), the six men were, Jan Berry Crumb, Ron Kovic, Skip Delano, Carl Rogers, Sheldon Ramsdell, and former black panther Al Hubbard. In the ensuing years over 30,000 people joined the VVAW. Many of them were arrested because they burned their draft cards. The VVAW is still around today and the protest against things like the Iraq war. They were the ones that started the music that we know as rap today. Many veterans are still denied justice and they are facing unemployment discrimination, and homelessness. It is thought that the VVAW only was against the Vietnam War but they are also very strongly against the present day wars, such as the Iraq war. They believe that the Iraq war is illegal and immoral. They were also against John Kerry in the 2005 presidential election. The VVAW would have been not nearly as big if it wasn’t veterans because the reason veterans joined is because after being in combat they understood how stupid the war was. Most veterans didn’t even believe in the domino theory. The main question is, did the Vietnam war effect the war? The answer is that it defiantly affected the views of most Americans. It encouraged people to protest which sometimes ended up in people being hurt or even killed. It also created new laws, such as; it became illegal to burn your draft card. This wasn’t illegal earlier because they didn’t expect people to do that but most protests were started because of that. The VVAW probably didn’t effect the war, but it definitely made the government aware of what the public view was. This is how the VVAW changed the United States in the 1960s.