Reply #105: Good point about those who didn't live through Johnson era, [View All]

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"I don't think people who did not live through the era can truly understand what it was like to have a draft -- and an inequitable draft at that -- sending boys by the tens of thousands to die in a war everyone hated and knew was hopeless. "

ITA with you. I think for some of those too young to remember, they see the progressive legislation passed when LBJ was President, and don't think as much about how they would feel had they, or their brothers/boyfriends, etc., been subject to the draft.