Vietnam Protester

One of the most important protest leaders during the 1960s was David Harris, Stanford student, civil rights worker, former husband of Joan Baez. He has just written an excellent book called "OUR WAR-WHAT WE DID IN VIETNAM AND WHAT IT DID TO US", 1996, Times Books. He went to Federal Prison for two years for failure to report for service. He refused to take a college deferment. They threw him in jail. When people talk about coward, draft dodgers, please remember that no one got off scot-free. There was alot of emotional, family and social turmoil. And many protesters did go to jail instead of go into the service. Others found ways around the draft, and this includes people from the poor, working and middle-classes. Those that refused to go found a way not to. Yes, many of the wealthy like Dan Qualye got special handling-sent to the National Guard. But so did many other protesters from different walks of life. Many got college deferments, but once they were over they had to face the draft. Basically, there were many different things that many different people did to get out of a war they did not believe in or simply did not believe was worth dying for.