Word: rotcs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...went through college in troubled times too, you know. We didn't know when we would have to go to war. ROTC was called up between Christmas and New Years of 1944 and we didn't get any credit for that whole preceding term. Now the students are demanding credit for no work because they say these are troubled times. We had the war, and a lot of us were not for the war. God knows we didn't want to go. We turned around, though, with PearlHarbor which in my mind was completely brought about by Franklin Delano Roosevelt...
Themes of the two observances converge. Of the 561,652 U.S. war dead honored on Memorial Day, 42,265 have died in Indochina. The war shadows this generation. Education, traditionally regarded as an American salvation, has meant merely a deferment for many. Some are leaving their ROTC programs for active duty. More than a few will choose evasion, a road sometimes leading to exile or prison...
...startling numbers, the nation's students were returning to political action for the first time since they dispersed in bitterness after the bloody Chicago convention. While some young extremists were still sporadically fire-bombing ROTC offices, many thousands more coalesced in the new activist movement. It was in effect a rapidly formed, massive new lobby to coax or coerce change from the system. Some of the more vociferous radicals had at least temporarily muted their voices, but more important, the changed context of the Indochinese war and the Kent and Jackson State killings suddenly brought a new legion...
...when King Collins tried to drown out professors last year, he was invariably hissed down. Student opinion protected academic freedom last year and could be relied upon in the future. When SDS tried to take over the ROTC building a few weeks ago, student moderates realized ROTC was being phased out during the next year and blocked the path to Shannon Hall...
...University "complicity with the war machine," including ROTC and defense research...