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Draft-age Americans being counseled by Mark Satin (far left) at the Anti-Draft Programme office on Spadina Avenue in Toronto, August 1967. The front room was so crowded at the time that the counseling session here is taking place in one of the small side rooms. The Toronto Anti-Draft Programme was Canada's largest organization providing pre-emigration counseling and post-emigration services to American Vietnam War resisters.

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Vietnam

Ken Burns Vietnam: First Look “Cowards or Heroes”

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