What was draft card burnings

From through , with a short interruption in the late s, young men at age 18 were required by law to register with their local draft boards. Each was classified according to his fitness for service and issued a draft card noting his name, age, and draft status.

The Supreme Court struck down a First Amendment challenge to the law. This is a June 20, photo of Ken Love burning what he claimed was a draft card and his Students for a Democratic Society card in Chicago.

Possession of the card proved that the card bearer was compliant with the Selective Service System and had not tried to evade classification for military service.

Draft operations ran relatively smoothly before and during World War II and again during the Korean War and the s. By the mids, as the United States drafted more troops for the Vietnam War and opposition to the war heightened, some men viewed the public destruction of their draft cards as an effective form of symbolic protest against both the war and the draft system that supported it. Draft-card burning became one of the most iconic forms of protest during the war.

It was a gesture made by young men who wished to buck the system but were not comfortable with more extreme measures such as going to Canada, participating in riots, or destroying induction centers.

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