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Proclamation from the Veterans of Future Wars
The Proclamation from the Veterans of Future Wars worked to urge for bonuses to be paid expediently before they would die in a different war. They planned a rally at the university's McIntire Amphitheater on April 17, 1970, during the Vietnam War. This rally included two parades. One parade ran through the Corner, Chancellor Street, and down Madison Lane. A separate parade was led from the Theta Delta Chi house and down Rugby Road. The two parades converged at the amphitheater and were led by two bands, including Matt Womber, Harry Rodgers Pratt, Freddie Cramer, Ben Bulaney, John Watts, Bobby Gresham, and Al Johnson. The rally included Congressman Scott of California as the principal speaker.

Vietnam Moratorium committee
The Vietnam Moratorium Committee was a student group at The University of Virginia responsible for putting on UVA-based programs during the nationwide Moratorium against the Vietnam War on October 15, 1969. At UVA, a variety of events took place between Monday, October 13 and Wednesday, October 15, including speeches, films, discussions held in student dorms, and a rally. Led by John Israel, a professor of History, University faculty also got involved in the movement, including 36 signees of a statement supporting the Moratorium. Despite the efforts of both faculty and the Student Council, President Edgar Shannon ignored such calls and invited criticism from groups like The New Republic after refusing to cancel classes to observe the Moratorium.

Letter from the Veterans for Peace in Vietnam
In a letter mail sent from the Veterans for Peace in Vietnam at the University Station in Charlottesville, VA., the committee expressed their opposition against the ROTC program at the university. They argued that the ROTC program at U.Va went against the universities purpose towards developing independent minds; instead, indoctrinating students with "mindless obedience and the ways of war." The committee believed that the ROTC manipulates students into signing through the students intermediate needs - money for school and fear of the draft. They suggest that the abolition of ROTC would make it more difficult to continue the Vietnam War and also future wars.