Keyser Söze wrote:
On 6/1/15 3:14 PM, Califbill wrote:
Keyser Söze wrote:



Some of us did what we could to help bring about the end of segregation
and others went off to SE Asia to kill people who in reality meant us no harm.

What would you have done with a draft notice?


To the best of my recollection of those times, the notice would have told
me to present myself at a local facility for a pre-induction physical. If
that's correct, then that is what I would have done, of course.

I keep telling you boys that something less than about a third of
age-eligible males were drafted. My only legal responsibility in the
draft during the time period was to let my draft board know my address so
it could reach me if it so desired, and I did so, with
registered/certified letters and return receipts. My draft board never bothered me.

Of all the guys I knew well from high school and college, only a handful
were drafted. When we have our summer get-togethers in New Haven, and
there are upwards of 50 old friends at these events, there were only two
I recall who were drafted or enlisted to avoid the draft.

We would have been better served as a nation if a huge percentage of
those actually drafted had refused to kill Vietnamese and had sought
military C.O. jobs during that idiotic war. The North Vietnamese were
never a threat to us in any way.

It's too bad Dubya didn't realize the stupidity of what he was doing in Iraq, eh?

Deferring'. What would you have done if you received the notice. And it
did not tell you to report for a preinduction physical. That was a
separate notice. The draft notice told you to report for induction. They
might not keep you after induction, but you were inducted. Friend was
drafted and sent home as he was too tall. Too tall, too short, too big of
feet, and the supplies did not fit you.