{"id":1724,"date":"2019-11-15T15:45:15","date_gmt":"2019-11-15T20:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/?p=1724"},"modified":"2019-11-15T15:45:15","modified_gmt":"2019-11-15T20:45:15","slug":"vietnam-protest-movement-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/2019\/11\/15\/vietnam-protest-movement-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Vietnam Protest Movement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Before watching this video, I had no idea that so much resistance took place in the United States at the time of the Vietnam war. I was surprised to hear that the anti-war movement began on college campuses nationwide as a protest against the war and the draft. Specifically, the killings of Kent State really disturbed me. These killings marked the climax of the antiwar movement, as the government fired on its own children, and I am extremely shocked that our nation got to that point of extremism and violence.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I think it is really important to consider the role of leadership in these events. Around 1967, civil rights leaders began publicly speaking up against the war. MLK, for instance, stated in one of his speeches that \u201c[the bombs in Vietnam] destroy the dream and possibility for a decent America.\u201d In addition to verbally opposing the war, he also described, \u201cwar is not peace and tyranny is not freedom.\u201d In my opinion, this last quote is extremely inspiring because MLK proves that the war has more disadvantages than benefits. In fact, increased militancy caused increased anger and backlash, which explains how the protests rapidly turned violent. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before watching this video, I had no idea that so much resistance took place in the United States at the time of the Vietnam war.&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/2019\/11\/15\/vietnam-protest-movement-4\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Vietnam Protest Movement<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}