Word: vietnam
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While the current situation obviously doesn't rival the anguish surrounding the Vietnam draft or the fight for civil rights in the 1960s, students' sense of an overbearing, out-of-touch and insensitive authority has created a reaction reminiscent of that time...
Nigerian author Chinua Achebe, designer of the Vietnam Veterans' Memorial Maya Ying Lin and medical researcher and humanitarian Harold Amos are three of this year's honorands...
...class which attended Harvard during the turbulent Vietnam era and participated in the student strike of 1969, alumni said their college experience was greatly impacted by the political and social atmosphere of the country...
When asked about the impact of the Vietnam War, one alumnus said that the war "erected a lasting wall between me and those who served." Another wrote that the conflict "spoiled my college years and made me skeptical of all leaders in politics...
Just 1.6 percent of male alumni said they took conscientious objector status, compared to 18.5 percent who were drafted and failed a draft physical and 13.9 percent who received a deferment. Not one drafted member of the Class of 1971 served in Vietnam, and only 1.3 percent of alumni enlisted in the armed forces...