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Xithras (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-19-11 12:00 PM Original message |
Question for those who lived through and remember the Vietnam draft. |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-19-11 12:01 PM Response to Original message |
1. You would have been told that if your number came up and you refused to "go" |
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Xithras (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-19-11 12:06 PM Response to Reply #1 |
3. Ah |
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NNN0LHI (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-19-11 12:09 PM Response to Reply #3 |
5. That would probably lead to an "accident", in boot camp |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-19-11 12:11 PM Response to Reply #3 |
8. The draft system was a machine that processed young men into the military |
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Blue_In_AK (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-19-11 05:20 PM Response to Reply #8 |
42. I had a good high school friend who fled to Canada |
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MilesColtrane (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-19-11 12:15 PM Response to Reply #3 |
13. "So the military wouldn't really care what their opinions were, even if they followed orders?" |
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pinboy3niner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-19-11 12:17 PM Response to Reply #13 |
18. "Son, you seem to have a high aptitude for the Infantry" |
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Kingofalldems (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-19-11 12:02 PM Response to Original message |
2. Sent home--I am not sure of the classification--probably 4-F |
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Xithras (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-19-11 12:11 PM Response to Reply #2 |
7. Hmm, now I have an answer each way... |
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Kingofalldems (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-19-11 12:15 PM Response to Reply #7 |
14. The person basically said he was a communist |
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WinkyDink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-19-11 12:11 PM Response to Reply #2 |
9. Surely you jest?! In no way!! Guys got nose operations, dental braces, etc., But "4-F" just for |
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socialist_n_TN (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-19-11 12:12 PM Response to Reply #2 |
10. I don't think so. That statement to the draft board |
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Jackpine Radical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-19-11 12:33 PM Response to Reply #10 |
27. You're exactly right. |
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Hepburn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-19-11 12:08 PM Response to Original message |
4. I lived through this and I do not recall anyone doing this. |
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WinkyDink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-19-11 12:14 PM Response to Reply #4 |
12. Nobody told the Draft Board anything before emigrating! Unless you were not being literal. :-) |
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badtoworse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-19-11 12:38 PM Response to Reply #12 |
28. Student deferments were available after the lottery |
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Brother Buzz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-19-11 01:44 PM Response to Reply #28 |
33. Not for this dumb draftee |
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badtoworse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-19-11 04:36 PM Response to Reply #33 |
40. I got my deferment in 1968 - nt |
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WinkyDink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-19-11 12:10 PM Response to Original message |
6. You would have been on point in a big hurry. |
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ChandlerJr (554 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-19-11 12:12 PM Response to Original message |
11. Muhammad Ali did it |
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Xithras (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-19-11 12:16 PM Response to Reply #11 |
15. I just googled that. Ali actively refused to serve. |
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DonP (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-19-11 12:23 PM Response to Reply #15 |
23. Draft Boards didn't really give a shit what you thought |
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WinkyDink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-19-11 12:17 PM Response to Reply #11 |
16. He didn't just iterate this. He expressed his Muslim religious beliefs, as a Quaker might have. |
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Kingofalldems (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-19-11 12:17 PM Response to Reply #11 |
17. Difference was he didn't claim he was rooting for the Viet Cong |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-19-11 12:17 PM Response to Original message |
19. You might be given a medic bag |
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elleng (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-19-11 12:18 PM Response to Original message |
20. Don't really know, but I wonder whether they would give anyone |
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TreasonousBastard (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-19-11 12:19 PM Response to Original message |
21. I don't remember anyone trying that... |
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Xithras (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-19-11 12:23 PM Response to Reply #21 |
22. Good point. |
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frazzled (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-19-11 12:24 PM Response to Original message |
24. You would have to have gotten Conscientious Objector status first |
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HereSince1628 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-19-11 12:30 PM Response to Original message |
25. I think your students should see how a generation did react... |
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Xithras (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-19-11 12:32 PM Response to Original message |
26. Thanks everyone. |
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FarCenter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-19-11 12:47 PM Response to Reply #26 |
30. During WW II, the Soviets placed machine gun battalions behind the front line divisions |
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Crabby Appleton (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-19-11 12:38 PM Response to Original message |
29. David Harris, husband of Joan Baez, was convicted |
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deaniac21 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-19-11 12:49 PM Response to Original message |
31. And I went up there, I said, "Shrink, I want to kill. I mean,Iwanna, I |
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sinkingfeeling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-19-11 01:40 PM Response to Original message |
32. Disagreeing with the war was not a valid excuse for not serving. If drafted, you reported and were |
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classysassy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-19-11 02:02 PM Response to Original message |
34. Bring back the draft |
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Tikki (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-19-11 02:15 PM Response to Original message |
35. Mr. Tikki was drafted.... |
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county worker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-19-11 02:26 PM Response to Original message |
36. I was drafted and I think that if you applied for conscientious objector status there was an |
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SomethingFishy (552 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-19-11 02:33 PM Response to Original message |
37. You said this: |
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tomg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-19-11 02:39 PM Response to Original message |
38. They would still have sent you into |
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DFW (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-19-11 02:45 PM Response to Original message |
39. It was a choice I never had to make, thank goodness |
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Drew Richards (507 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-19-11 04:49 PM Response to Original message |
41. Well boy..if that's how you feel. you are definantly 11B infantry go to the front line bitch..NEXT! |
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