Vietnam war memorial

At the end of the 1960s, many Americans were sick andashamed of the killing and destruction in Vietnam.

Daily TV- broadcasts of bombing, horror and sufferingreinforced pacifists in the the idea that the war was wrong.

They participated in almost daily protest marches inWashington, DC and sit-ins on campuses where malestudents were facing the draft*.

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(*conscription obligatoire)

After a while, demonstrationswere banned in Ohio. Yet athousand students defied theban and demonstrated at KentState University.

Soldiers fired, killing 4 studentsand wounding* another ten.

In 1969, Richard Nixon was elected as president. Finally,the last American soldiers leftVietnam in 1973.

*(blessant)

It is estimated that out of the 3 million Americans who served in Vietnam, 57,929 died in the war, 25% developed cancer due to Agent Orange and 25% suffered from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.

It is believed that 2,500 veterans still live in the woods to hide from society.

Two films denouncing the horror of the war

Flower Power Movement

Committed singers took a stand against the war* :

John Lennon Yoko Ono

* (des chanteurs engagés prirent position contre la guerre)