The Impact of Protests

I beg to differ with Mack Rossoff ’74’s conclusions (Inbox, March 2). As I recall, by 1972, effective student protests had happened (not at Princeton), and the politicians were slowly extracting us from Vietnam. Princeton was late to this party. He is correct in that ROTC was shut down, not necessarily to the service of the nation. It is rare now for a Princeton student to serve, or to know people who do. That is especially important when these students become political leaders, as we are now seeing. Long gone are the concepts of citizen soldier, of pay as you go for military adventures, of having responsibilities as well as rights.