The Vietnam War, who fled to Canada, reflects the past and the future of competitors

In 1977, the president signed by Jimmy Carter was an invitation to help thousands of Americans come home and heal a nation with the War of Vietnam. Those who left for Canada to prevent the project did not want any part of the conflict killed in about 60,000 Americans.

Canada had offered a shelter. He did not support the war and asked several questions and wanted to greet the passers of the border with a few questions.

Many war resistance or dodgers were often called to the proposal of Mr. Carter for pardon, as they were often called by others. Their decisions came with high costs: felling family connections, broken friendship and frequent shame. Those who think they were savagely in Canadia, they considered them cowards.

Now the 50th anniversary of the war comes in another turbulent moment.

For Americans living in Canada, President Trump’s economic attacks and threats for the sovereignty of Canada have once again worried about the United States.

I walked throughout Canada and left America in about 70s or 80s, and I left for 70s or 80s reflecting their feelings about both countries. Here are the things they say.

Optimistic

Richard Lemm saw Canada as a mythical land of beautiful vistas and a peaceful government.

He appealed to the status of an honest protest in the United States, which was not in line with other reasons for people who refuse a military service, religious or moral beliefs. He was rejected and fled the north in 1968.

“The main motivation for leaving was politically and spiritual,” said Mr Lemm, Prince Edward Island Professor, writer and poet on the island of Prince Edward.

As it is today, when you look at the United States, he sees a deep polar society. “People don’t listen to each other enough and really really need,” he said.

In the 1960s, the peace activity Rex Weyer promised a writer and an ecologist born in Colorado.

Changed when the Numerous Notifications of FBI were beaten after ignoring. Mr. Weyers fled 1972 to Canada and now lives on the island of Cortes in British Columbia. The Environmental Group continued to be Greenpeace founder.

In the last few months, he said he asked the United States about his views on the coming of Canada. In this case, he does not believe that it is the correct answer to leave.

“You can’t really escape the political views you don’t like,” Mr. Weyers said.

Family

Don Gayton served two years in the Peace Corps among the poor farmers in Colombia. When he returned to the United States in 1968, he was waiting for a notice waiting for him.

“My country sent me to help farmers in Colombia,” Mr. Gayton said. “Now they want me to kill them in Vietnam.”

Mr. Gayton and his wife Judy Harris collected their belongings and two children and went to British Columbia in 1974.

Mr. Gayton, who said the couple went back to his son’s military position, caused a ten-year long.

“We were proud that we were on our place,” Mr. Gayton said. “The shocking part will seriously go to the cemetery that does not forgive war resistance.”

Looking for an original life

The boys were born in Los Angeles, Susan Mulkey was a vegetarian.

In 20, he opposed the war and wanted to carry a more environmentally friendly lifestyle bus took a bus to Britain Columbia.

Now Kaslo is in British Columbia, but in American political activity, but living in the American political activity, which helps voting in the US elections and live in American political activity.

“Canada facilitates my ability to live in an original life,” he said.

Ecologist

In 1969, Canada Prime Minister Pierre Elliott said Trudeau said that the situation of young Americans who moved to Canada is not allowed to be allowed to enter the country legally.

This was a reason to move John Bergenske to British Columbia in 1970 after giving the US status of an honest confession.

“I left this scene for falling in love with,” said Mr Bergenske. “Politics was second.”

He focused on environmental work and WildSight was a non-profit protection organization for a long time.

“If you intend to leave your country, you really need to make sure that you really love,” Mr. Bergenske said.

Three generations Ed Washington’s family served in the US Army. They were black and were more hospitable from the civil world.

“My grandfather felt the least racist place for him,” said Can Washington, Calgary, Alberta is a legal assistance lawyer.

His mother, a Quaker, Mr. Washington sent to Quaker boarding school in British Columbia. When he returned to the United States to participate in the college, he appealed to the status of honest protest and taught in Quaker school in California, where Jerry Garcia met and sank to the rock ‘n’ roll subculture.

However, Mr. Washington said that the use of drug use in the circles and returned to British Columbia in 1974.

Did not spend a lot of time in the past. “I just thought that today I would intervene in my life.”

As a university student in Washington, the Policy Project, Brian Conrad allowed to postpone military service as long as it was written to school.

After completing the research, in 1972, Latin America, in the end, married to the British Columbia, which was held in Britain Columbia, lasts 30 years as a Latin license teacher and an environmental activist, married and used.

Mr. Conrad thought to return to the United States, but the two things removed him: strong control of Canada’s firearms and its public health care system.

He said: “I do not want to paint one with flowers and the other. We have difficulties and problems.”

Pacifist

Ellen Burt, Eugenene, Ore grew in one of the Quaker’s family in one of the family. Before the Vietnamese war, many US policies were formed.

19 Ms. Burt decided that he wanted to live in the desert. He went to the British Columbia where there were ties with quakers living there.

He started his family when he took his family in agriculture and in terms of agriculture and seasonal.

He never thought to return to the United States, because his relatives supported his action so much. But today he said he felt in Canada and had a completely identical reputation to be Haven.

“Governments seize this right-wing world happens all over the world.”

The mountains were called

Canada felt more like a giant yard than a separate country. The border was a short drive from the work in Montana as a park ranger in Montana.

In 1967, he decided to live in a hospital in Alberta in 1967 he wanted to live in Canadian Rockies one night in 1967.

The letter ignored a warning project, continued to be a Canadian citizen and wrote a walk in the “Canadian Rockies Trail Guide”.

The mountains were the shrine of Mr. Patton, “The foolishness was a step on the border.”

Politician

When the project was arrived, Corky Evans was pasted according to the rules and an army has given a physical exam. Passed.

Mr. Evans tried to take the status of an honest protest, but the Christian minister refused to write a letter of support.

He married a woman with their previous marriage and moved to Canada.

Was a children’s care worker on the island of Vancouver and was in strange work before working for a year’s office that caused a long career in British Columbian politics.

“Canada get a life here to me,” Mr. Evans said.

Father

Bob Hogue serves in the army and evacuated the body bags of American soldiers who died in Vietnam, in San Francisco, at that time.

He was afraid to be called to the front line.

When the day arrives, Awole decided to go. His 1-year-old son said he could not tolerate the possibility of the possibility of growing without the father.

In 1969, the Canadian border crossed with his wife and son.

“Once I did not feel guilty about I betraying about it or my country,” said Mr. Hogue, who lived in British Columbia.

In the end, a small entry company took various jobs, including firefighting and carpentry. Again, Mr. Hogue never refused American citizenship and does not feel intimacy for the rest of the country.

“I’m worried about the situation of our world,” he said.

Vjosa isa Information from Toronto.