The Wednesday Wars.

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The Wednesday Wars

#1 – Flower Children

#2 Flower Child (like Holling’s sister Heather) Hippies (image from Hair)

#3 – The Draft Recruitment poster Draft lottery

#4 – War protests Draft card burnings

#5 – Bobby Kennedy

#6 – Lyndon B. Johnson

#7 – Richard Nixon

#8 – non violent protest

#9 - Vietnam

#10 – Helicopters in Vietnam

#11 – Walter Cronkite

#12 – Mickey Mantle

#13 – The Tempest

Images: Flower children poster Flower children/hippies Vietnam War draft (poster and lottery system) Draft card burnings Robert (Bobby) Kennedy Lyndon Johnson (with JFK and Martin Luther King Jr) Richard Nixon Vietnam War Protester (famous image) Soldiers in Vietnam Helicopters in Vietnam Walter Cronkite Mickey Mantle Shakespeare’s The Tempest