The Moratorium March on Washington D.C. took place on November 15, 1969 exactly one month after the national movement of the Moratorium to End the Vietnam War. One million people participated in the march, as noted by D.C. police. This was a huge movement during the 1960's and this march made a big statement about how Americans could come together to support or tear apart a policy.
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A woman wears a black armband with a peace sign on it to symbolize peace and lack of support for the Vietnam War. This was a very prevalent way to show what side you were on and many soldiers in Vietnam wore black arm bands to stand in solitary and protest the US' involvement in the Vietnam War from across the world. |
The slogan "We won't fight another rich man's war" became very popular during the Vietnam War. Wealthier people and people in the government who were declaring war and supporting the war were not the majority of people doing the actual fighting. College was a legal way to defer being drafted and so many people who had enough money to go to college were not drafted into the war. This left the poorer side of Americans to fight the war and suffer the consequences. People began to get very upset that they were being sent to war on the account of people who sat in offices all day. |