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The war was also known as the “rich man’s war, poor man's fight”

it reflects who went and who didn’t. 

In 1965-66, 2% of college students made up the draft 

1,200 students at Harvard and only 2 went to Vietnam. Then at the south of Boston in a working class area, they lost 25 young men. 

Vietnam showed people that America was not a “classless society”. 

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88.4 % of troops deployed to Vietnam were Caucasian, 10.6% were African- American and 1% were other races. 

The 1970 census estimated the African- American population at 11 % 

76 % of those who served came from working class but this was the time when most soldiers only had a high school diploma. The draft was heavily biased against the poor and favored the american middle classes. A big number of African american were drafted mostly because of the high levels of poverty in their neighborhoods.

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Beating the draft became a status symbol. 

Up until 1968 you could have been deferred by going to graduate school. 

From 1963- 1966, you were deferred if married. During those years 10% in marriage rates rose. 

Some men starve themselves, or made their blood pressure very high. Others kissed the examining sergent, homosexuility was not allowed in the military during the Vietnam time. 

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At the time African - American soldiers were very common in the military but Vietnam was the first major conflict in which they were fully integrated

 Soldiers from the south resisted African American soldiers, and others on the front felt the tension between soldiers due from the Newark Riots in the summer of 1967. 

In 1967, a NBC journalist Frank McGee spent a month living with soldiers, he observed how soldiers worked, lived and formed friendships with each other. Asking about racial differences the sergeant Larry answered with, “There is no racial barrier here.” 

Another interview with People Magazine in 1987, Wallace Terry, stated, “Martin Luther’s dream came true at the front lines of Vietnam.

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In 1967, a NBC journalist Frank McGee spent a month living with soldiers, he observed how soldiers worked, lived and formed friendships with each other. Asking about racial differences the sergeant Larry answered with, “There is no racial barrier here.” 

Another interview with People Magazine in 1987, Wallace Terry, stated, “Martin Luther’s dream came true at the front lines of Vietnam.

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