The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas | Social Sensitivity
America's involvement in the Vietnam War, particularly from 1964 to 1973, caused much domestic unrest during those decades. Many young people protested against the war, and these demonstrations reached their peak in 1969, when 250,000 people marched in Washington, D.C. A year later, on May 4, 1970, National Guardsmen killed four students at Kent State University in Ohio during a war protest. The mid to late 1960s also saw the rise of the "counter-culture" in the United States. A movement that developed largely as a reaction against the war, the counterculture was made up of young people...
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