Draft-card burning
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draft-card-burning-180-11515405
title:
Draft-card burning
text:
Draft-card burning was a symbol of protest performed by thousands of young men in the United States and Australia in the 1960s and early 1970s as part of the anti-war movement. The first draft-card burners were American men participating in the opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War. The first well-publicized protest was in December 1963, with a 22-year-old conscientious objector, Gene Keyes, setting fire to his card on Christmas Day in Champaign, Illinois. In May 1964, a lar
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Vietnam War draft protests, 1964–1973
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft-card_burning
date created:
2011-03-12T03:42:43Z
date modified:
2024-09-05T14:23:21Z
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