As a twenty-something, it’s easy to wonder why our generation hasn’t stepped up to the plate the same way our parents did in the 1960s and 70s to protest the war in Vietnam. But how come we haven’t? Do we just not care? Do we express our outrage using the internet and therefore mass demonstrations are unnecessary?

Dotty Lynch has some interesting opinions on this subject that you should take a look at:

I have always hated the explanation that student protests against the Vietnam War were motivated by young men who didn’t want to serve. For one thing, as a young woman who was passionately against the war, I knew that wasn’t my motivation. And most of the male protesters I knew held strong, moral convictions against the war.

But as the war in Iraq rages on I keep asking myself: Where are the young people this time around? Where are the campuses? Where are the new Tom Haydens and Sam Browns and where are the Noam Chomskys, William Sloane Coffins and Daniel Berrigans?

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