Hell, No, We Didn't Go!: Firsthand Accounts of Vietnam War Protest and Resistance - Paperbackby Eli Greenbaum (Author) As long as there have been wars, there has been conscription. And conscription has never been popular. When asked in a Gallup poll taken in August 1965 whether the US decision to send troops to Vietnam was a mistake, sixty percent of Americans polled said no. But as American casualties increased and the war escalated, polls showed fewer Americans supporting US actions in Vietnam. That, however, did not stop the drafting of