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What are your thoughts IF Kennedy had lived and continued the war?? Would the kids have lined up to sign up for the military to fight in Vietnam??
I was living in Berkeley when Nixon started the draft lottery. It was amazing how many people lost interest in the Vietnam War at the point.
A lot of us were totally anti war no matter what. Even when the draft ended we were still purely against that war. I eventually outgrew the matter when I started working and could no longer attend rallies and meetings. But I still took a day off from work to go to NYC to march in a protest.
I know what you mean about people probably not being so involved anymore once they knew they were safe from the draft. Men, especially, of course. But I can't say for sure because by that time I was out of college where the activism was strong, and I was working full time. So my husband and I were mostly non involved by that time anyway. Some of our friends were returning from Viet Nam, not in the frame of mind as they were pre-Viet Nam. So we were still against that war. It was wrong!
Why indulge in "what if?"
Once you go there, its all fiction, and can be spun out forever in any ridiculous extreme anyone can dream up.
History deals in facts. Facts can be disputed, but fiction cannot. Every historic event is always a confluence of other events. When one thing changes, everything changes.
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