Believe Quote by Neil Young

[ Vietnam War] brought the people together and made the '60s like they were. The youth were very unified against the status quo -…

— Neil Young

I was 20, and my reality was that people either went to college full-time, or they were draftable. The dear friends that I went…

— Joe Walsh

There is a residual sense for me, having grown up in the early '70s, that I did not know I had, which was a…

— Stephen Colbert

The reason why many young people in the Vietnam War era were active was their lives were threatened by the draft and they were…

— Tom Morello

The Vietnam War was causing people to get drafted; I had received a deferment to finish my undergraduate education, and in order to continue…

— Robert Shapiro

“For these reasons the Vietnam-era army (unlike the armies that had fought in World War II or Korea) consisted disproportionately of the poor, minority…

— James T. Patterson

“Roughly 80 percent of American soldiers in Vietnam were from poor or working-class backgrounds. Neither in college nor in graduate school—where most students received…

— James T. Patterson

I think most of us secretly know – and those of us at the radical middle are inclined to say – that without such…

— Mark Satin

But although Australia was also involved in the Vietnam conflict, I can remember my dad telling us that if we were in Australia, we…

— Mel Gibson

With the draft, everybody was involved. Everybody was fodder. When you got to be 21, 22 and graduated from college, for two years your…

— Philip Roth

I remember the day I found out my draft status. I was really floored and kind of staggered around in a daze. It just…

— Parker Stevenson

“National service sounds like a utopian concept for social leveling, and it might be, if it were applied fairly. Those who call for a…

— Bob Scales