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A self-styled hippie sees reflections of Vietnam in the fall of Afghanistan.
By Stewart Rogers
At 9 p.m. on Dec. 1, 1969, CBS interrupted its regularly scheduled broadcast of Mayberry R.F.D. for a new form of entertainment: America's first military draft since World War II.
By Stewart Rogers, Ken Sanders, Vicki Passey Williams, and Steve Williams
Peaceniks. Stoners. Tree huggers. Freaks. The hippies of the 1960s and early 1970s were seen by many as immoral, drug-crazed kids too spoiled to work and too selfish to embrace the American way of life.