Sorry, Gareth, I didn't mean to ignore yer well hidden question and I reckon it's fair of you to ask and I don't mind answering where I was during my draftable years. I was on the front lines of the anti-war movement and also doing draft counseling. But I also was running a rock n' roll club in Richmond, Va. which was right up the toad from Fort Lee and we went out of our way to make our brothers in uniform welcome.

As fir my own individual status, I went thru the consciencous objector route, was turned down (board politics) but ended up with a deferment for a history of my right lung collapsing out of the clear blue... Had it come down not getting the deferment and possibly being drafted I'd be livin' in Little Hawk's neighborhood today...

But as fir national service, I spent 3 years working between the Richmond City Jail as an inhouse G.E.D. teacher and doing the samw at Rubicon North, a drug rehab. halfway house teaching and counseling. I received what amounted to subsistence wages and given that I was "Staff on Duty" (SOD) every other weekend (Friday morning to Monday night) and also worked until 9:00 most night I probably averaged well over 100 hours a week working in an intense environmnet. Not exactly shooting at people but, hey... I've done what can... And since those days some 30 some years ago I have always been involved as a volunteer in community organizations and will continue to be until they plant me...

Bobert