Posted on Apr 17, 2018
First antiwar protest of the year is conducted - Apr 17, 1972 - HISTORY.com
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The first major antiwar protest of 1972 is held. The demonstration, held at the University of Maryland, was organized to protest the Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC). Hundreds of students were arrested and 800 National Guardsmen were ordered onto the campus. Significant protests continued across the country in reaction to the increased bombing of North Vietnam, which had been initiated in response to the new communist offensive in South Vietnam.
First antiwar protest of the year is conducted - Apr 17, 1972 - HISTORY.com
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SP5 Mark Kuzinski We lived in Hawaii at the time. This kind of craziness hadn't made it there yet.
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My brother was in ROTC in Colorado at the time. Those days were so volatile on campus, the cadets were required to bring their uniforms to school in paper sacks, and they would change into and out of them at the appropriate meetings/classes. Disgusting!
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SP5 Mark Kuzinski
I was in my last year at Western Michigan and the protest were going on there also.
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