draft card burning
Vietnam War resistance
Draft card burning was a form of protest against the Vietnam War, in which young American men publicly set fire to the cards documenting their registration for military conscription.
The act became a potent symbol of resistance after Congress criminalized it in 1965, making the burning itself an act of civil disobedience: He was arrested for draft card burning at a campus rally.
- protestPublic expression of disapproval
- VietnamSoutheast Asian coastal nation
- conscriptionMandatory military enrollment
- resistanceCapacity to withstand force
- antiwarOpposed to armed conflict
anti-war movement · 1960s · demonstration · student protest · selective service · civil disobedience · induction · dissent · pacifism · peace movement · activist · counterculture · defiance · rally · flames · ashes · military · conscientious objector
- protestdemonstration, walkout, picket, protest march, sit-in
- countercultureflower power, flower children, free love, hippie communes, Summer of Love
- Draft Evasionconscientious objector, conscientious objection, deferment, desertion, exemption
- Sixties Activismanti-war movement, anti-war protests, campus protests, counterculture, peace movement
- 1960sBeatles, Star Trek, Vietnam War, hippie movement, space race
- protestsprotest, demonstration, protest march, demonstrations, rallies
draft card burningvoluntary enlistment
Unpressured military signup
reporting for duty · signing up · joining up · draft registration · answering the call
draft card burningflag waving
Excessive patriotic display
jingoism · military recruitment · victory garden · war propaganda
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