United States participation in the Vietnam War was a subject of much debate among the American public. While many Americans supported the United States involvement in the War, in agreement with the Government that American assistance was needed in order to stop the spread of Communism, other people felt that it was immoral for the United States to involve itself in another country's internal matters.
             The antiwar movement against Vietnam in the US from 1965-1971 was the most significant movement of its kind in the nation's history. Anti-war protesters "were not confined to the young, radicals, intellectuals, and the disaffected.... By 1968, [they] included many powerful individuals within the business and financial communities, the media, and the government itself" ( McMahon 466). Also by '68, protesters numbered almost seven million, with more than half being white youths in the college.
             Students for a Democratic Society, (SDS), announced its opposition of the Vietnam War publicly in 1965. In a public announcement, they state their reasons for disagreement.
             "We feel that the war is immoral at its root, that it is fought alongside a regime with no claim to represent its people, and that it is foreclosing the hope of making America a decent and truly democratic society....We are anxious to help and to change our country; we refuse to destroy someone else's country (McMahon 467)."
             The SDS was not alone in their opposition. Civil-Rights leader, Martin Luther King, Jr., declared his opposition in 1967. He stated many reasons. "...it became clear to me that the war was doing far more than devastating the hopes of the poor at home. It was sending their sons and brothers and their husbands to fight and die...As I walked among the desperate, rejected and angry young men, I have told them that Molotov cocktails and rifles would not solve their problems...But, they as
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