Canada and the Vietnam War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Canada did not fight in the Vietnam Policing Action, and diplomatically it was officially "non-belligerent". The country's troop deployments to Vietnam were limited to a small number of national force...
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Members of the U.S. Veterans of Foreign Wars are furious about Canada's reported plan to build a memorial to Vietnam draft-dodgers. ... According to news reports, an estimated 125,000 Americans fled to Canada to avoid the Vietnam draft. ... "But to honor draft-dodgers, deserters, people who brought grief to the families they...
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Draft dodgers, as I'd use the term, are those who look for loopholes to evade any accountability to their country, their conscience or their fellow citizens. Resisters, in contrast, understand their country not in terms of its leaders and rulers, ... During the Vietnam War era, resistance began with burning draft cards,
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www.vvaw.org/veteran/article/?id=351
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by Kristina Dell and; Rebecca Myers E-Mail this ... VIETNAM DRAFT DODGERS, 1977 ... ; Whiskey Rebels; Confederate Citizens; Jimmy Hoffa; Richard Nixon; Vietnam Draft Dodgers; Felt and Miller; George Steinbrenner; Caspar Weinberger; Patty Hearst ; Marc Rich;
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www.time.com/time/2007/presidential_pardons/5.html
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His Oval Office chair was barely warm when President Jimmy Carter fulfilled a controversial campaign promise on his first day in the White House by issuing a pardon to those who avoided serving in the Vietnam war by fleeing the U.S. or not registering.
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No one expected the Vietnam War to play out as it did. With thousands of young men fighting to the death overseas, another group of American sons fled their homeland and journeyed north to Canada. ... Home · War & Conflict · Vietnam War · Seeking Sanctuary: Draft Dodgers...
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archives.cbc.ca/war_conflict/vietnam_war/topics/348/
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Elizabeth Cheney, Deferment BabyHow Dick Cheney dodged the Vietnam draft. ... What Chatterbox never realized until recently, however, is that Cheney's eldest daughter, Elizabeth Cheney, likely owes her very existence to her father's avoidance of the Vietnam draft.
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www.slate.com/id/2097365/
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Advoiding The Draft of Vietnam 1960-1972 ... Draft Dodgers were people who fled the draft by leaving the country. His other reasons for not wanting to enlist is he knew the war was pointless it would have been ended sooner than it was. The government made a mistake-drafting people into a war we should have never been...
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Vietnam Draft Dodger...
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