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Article: Dissent in Wars
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Dissent in Wars
Russell F. Weigley, and
David S. Patterson
"These men are not being supported as we were supported in World War I." So the Vietnam War appeared in contrast to the crusade of 1917
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1918 to a speaker addressing a reunion of the First Infantry Division in 1969 and reported by the military journalist Ward Just. American military men who fought in Vietnam widely believed that wartime dissent of unprecedented intensity uniquely denied them the support of their compatriots at home. Wartime dissent might never have become a lengthy subject had not the Vietnam War raised the issue to unaccustomed prominence and created a wider debate, ranging well beyond ...
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