Self-serving hippies: rethinking the 60's peace movement

After all, it was the baby boomers' resistance to the draft that finally shut down the Vietnam War ... wasn't it? Far from it. What is lost in the histories of the 1960s is that the protests then were at heart not antiwar protests; they were anti-draft protests. And once most baby boomers were liberated from the threat of Vietnam service by the introduction of the draft lottery, the fire and anger -- and foot soldiers -- of the antiwar movement disappeared almost overnight. "Why the Draft is Coming Through the Back Door" Huffington Post