President Lyndon B. Johnson commits American ground troops to Vietnam in 1965.
Draft calls go from 100,000 in 1964, to 400,000 in 1966.
Draftees made up the bulk of infantry riflemen in Vietnam (88 percent by 1969).
Drafties accounted for more than half the battle deaths.
The Draft was unfair and racist.
It fell disproportionately upon working-class youths and blacks.
Opposition mounted and a draft resistance movement grew in strength.
There were demonstrations, draft-card burnings, sit-ins, break-ins and destruction of records.
Faced with well over 100,000 apparent draft offenders, the government indicted 22,500 persons, of whom 8,800 were convicted and 4,000 imprisoned.
The most common form of draft "protest" was evasion.
15.4 million received legal exemptions or deferments.
570,000 evaded the draft illegally.
360,000 were never caught.
198,000 had their cases dismissed.
9,000 were convicted.
4,000 sent to prison.
30,000 to 50,000 fled into exile.
January 27, 1973, the day a cease-fire was announced, the administration stopped drafting.
Vietnam War
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