Make love not war

The 60s were a great era, minus the Vietnam war and the hippies... and the Cuban missile crisis... and a bunch of other stuff. The Vietnam war was a turning point in the anti war movement. Basically there were a lot of cameras reporting directly from the battlefield. When people saw what was going on there they were appalled, so they went out and protested. Or they could have just sit tight and wait to be drafted themselves.

Imagine a bayonet charge now.

The army, beside offering cheap flights to Vietnam, lost a lot of men and nearing the end of the war, casualties, both civilian and military rose. As the anti war movement grew, pressure was on the US government to halt it's south-Asia activities and withdraw. The withdrawal was pretty nasty. Basically everybody had one day to check out from their Saigon hotels (see: Fall of Saigon). The results of the war teaches everyone a lesson: don't bring cameras make love not war.