To begin with fellow americans are affected by the Vietnam war in a variety of ways. According to the passage the youth males are but through hard time as stated by Martin Luther King " Many people have been repeatedly faced with the cruel irony of watching Negro and white boys on TV screens as they kill and die together for a nation but not able to …show more content…
''. This shows that the unity of races in the American nation were combined only for fighting purposes and the America's at home seen this tragic event carry out on tevelision. Also Martin Luther King demostrates how strongly he feels about the fiasco occuring in his nation and tired of wacting the youth of the males being desimicated in a war that was not thier to fight . In similarity fellow america's are also affected because thier losing thier family members to this gruesome war . For example the families are being torn apart from eacthother '' They were sending their sons and their brothers and their husbands to fight and to die in extraordinarily high proportions relative to the rest of the population''. This proves that when they were recruting the people to fight in the war they didn't think about it