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Thread #104031 Message #2125482
Posted By: John Hardly
14-Aug-07 - 04:58 PM
Thread Name: BS: Avert The Draft
Subject: RE: BS: Avert The Draft
"Because the middle and upper classes can get deferrments..."
Y'know, I should leave it at the fact that it is a Democrat proposal, but I do kind of like the idea. And in the long run, it was because of the draft that Viet Nam was ultimately so unpopular that we accepted the loss of a war so our brothers could come home.
I was raised middle class through much of the 60s -- 'til dad offed himself -- but though I was one year too young to be drafted, my family went three for three -- all three of my older brothers were drafted. One of them even avoided -- so to speak -- the draft, until he finished college. Then his number still came up.
It is a re-write of history to say that enough middle class boys avoided the draft, such that a draft would have no effect on the middle class.
Surely every American mudcatter knows of at least a few middle class classmates who were drafted. I sure did.
And if the poor are drafted, well, curiously, the arguement (a la Rangel) is that the military is already made up of all poor people now. How much different would it be?