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= During this time period, our country was experiencing many social changes and social issues. Our country was involved in the Vietnam War conflict that many of our young citizens were against and protested our involvement. We had a military draft that all males were included by law. Soldiers that returned home from Vietnam had war trauma and drug problems to overcome. The music scene was changing with many groups addressing the social issues with their lyrics. People gathered together at large college universities to protest this war, such as the shootings at Kent State University in Ohio on May 4, 1970. Youth gangs were a problem in larger cities as well as the acceptance of integration of blacks and whites. Your assignment is to pick one of these social issues, research it and create a report that tells how it affected our country as a whole and what was done to overcome/correct the issue. This is the same time period that S. E.Hinton wrote the novels "The Outsiders" and "That Was Then, This Is Now". You should see a relationship betwwen the what was going on in our country and the social settings she used in the novels. = = The Vietnam War affected our country as a whole badly because Men had to go,and most had a family to support and they were paid little,also their lives were at risk. The Vietnam War cost the United States 58,000 lives and 350,000 casualties. It also resulted in between one and two million Vietnamese deaths. It was Also the longest war in American history and the most unpopular American war of the twentieth century. Even today, many Americans still ask whether the American effort in Vietnam was a sin, a blunder, a necessary war, or a noble cause, or an idealistic, if failed, effort to protect the South Vietnamese from totalitarian government. 91% of Vietnam Veterans say they are glad they served. 74% said they would serve again even knowing the outcome. EVE OF DESTRUCTION~Berry McGuire and I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-To-Die Rag are some Veitnam related songs.There was a radio station created by the U.S Armed Forces to entertain the American troops from the Delta to the DMZ called the Armed Forces Veitnam Network (AFVN).This radio station played all types of music,like rock & roll,country,jazz, & classical music .Some weapons used in the Vieynam war are the M14 with the NATO 7.62 mm round,the M16 with its 5.56 mm ammunition,the FN FAL,and the AK47. = = = = =  Good job. You jumped around a little. (2-CP