There is no draft. Young people forced to fight whether they agreed with the cause or not and their parents and friends and wives were a group receptive to the peace message.

How ironic that the young men with exemptions (union members whose work was critical to the war effort...the government's claim, not mine) proudly waved the flag in the faces of those who were marked to go. The middle class could take refuge in a college exemption. The poor could not. Were the draft to be reinstituted today not only would that same middle class be unable to hide their sons in colleges but their daughters would be prime meat for the slaughter as well. And then the protests would go mainstream.