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Reasons that many Americans criticize the draft the Vietnam war

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Most of U.S. soldiers drafted during the Vietnam War were men from poor and working-class families. The least political power sections were mistreated. As a matter of fact, American forces in Vietnam included twenty-five percent poor, fifty-five percent working-class, twenty percent middle-class men, but very few came from upper-classes families.

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The draft was seen as unfair to Americans because certain groups of men were disadvantaged, the draft was also illegal, and the lives of the war veterans were harmed, of course there were other reasons.

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