Add to ORKGThis essay examines why Vietnam veterans, who were draft motivated enlistees, enlisted when drafted or threatened with the draft. Data is taken from 63 oral history interviews conducted by The Vietnam Archive Oral History Project at Texas Tech University and is analyzed using the phenomenological research approach. The background of this paper briefly explains the Vietnam Draft and the draft avoidance options available to those men who were drafted. The results section utilizes quotes from the oral history interviews to show the main themes of why men chose to enlist when faced with the draft. The discussion section discusses these themes in a wider context and brings up areas for further research
During the 1960s and 1970s, youth activism and culture shaped American society. Pre- and college-age...
This thesis focuses on GI and veteran dissent during the Vietnam War. While activism of the 1960s ha...
Scholars have long sought to understand the effects of personal exposure to political events on poli...
This essay examines why Vietnam veterans, who were draft motivated enlistees, enlisted when drafted ...
Many historians have conducted oral history interviews with Vietnam War veterans in an attempt to of...
Veteran Memorytakes an in depth look at the experiences of US Army Veterans who served in the Vietna...
abstract: The purpose of this essay is to determine how the narratives of veterans who served in com...
This dissertation analyzes prominent political mobilizations of Vietnam War veterans between the 196...
This project examines the motivational structures of military service, focusing on the Vietnam War. ...
Abstract The most striking and theoretically anomalous finding of pre-vious research on self-interes...
This study explores how ordinary Americans could be made to fight a brutal and immoral war, and expl...
This dissertation recovers the history of the draft resistance movement in Boston during the Vietnam...
This is an exploratory study of American veterans\u27 decisions to join the military. Nine veterans ...
It is commonly acknowledged that American combat veterans of the Vietnam War were younger and were t...
The Vietnam War was unlike any war that America has ever been a part of. The experiences of unconve...
During the 1960s and 1970s, youth activism and culture shaped American society. Pre- and college-age...
This thesis focuses on GI and veteran dissent during the Vietnam War. While activism of the 1960s ha...
Scholars have long sought to understand the effects of personal exposure to political events on poli...
This essay examines why Vietnam veterans, who were draft motivated enlistees, enlisted when drafted ...
Many historians have conducted oral history interviews with Vietnam War veterans in an attempt to of...
Veteran Memorytakes an in depth look at the experiences of US Army Veterans who served in the Vietna...
abstract: The purpose of this essay is to determine how the narratives of veterans who served in com...
This dissertation analyzes prominent political mobilizations of Vietnam War veterans between the 196...
This project examines the motivational structures of military service, focusing on the Vietnam War. ...
Abstract The most striking and theoretically anomalous finding of pre-vious research on self-interes...
This study explores how ordinary Americans could be made to fight a brutal and immoral war, and expl...
This dissertation recovers the history of the draft resistance movement in Boston during the Vietnam...
This is an exploratory study of American veterans\u27 decisions to join the military. Nine veterans ...
It is commonly acknowledged that American combat veterans of the Vietnam War were younger and were t...
The Vietnam War was unlike any war that America has ever been a part of. The experiences of unconve...
During the 1960s and 1970s, youth activism and culture shaped American society. Pre- and college-age...
This thesis focuses on GI and veteran dissent during the Vietnam War. While activism of the 1960s ha...
Scholars have long sought to understand the effects of personal exposure to political events on poli...