Thanks. Fascinating stuff. It was mentioned (I'm paraphrasing) that you (Americans) could 'negotiate' with a draft board. Could that actually happen? Did that mean that local offices could could 'bend the numbers' if a convincing argument was put forth?

What about actual execution (of the shooting kind)? Did anyone (say, during WW2) pay the supreme penalty for refusing to fight? Anyone know about France or Spain or Italy?

One guy from New York that I met in the sixties, told me that he literally ATE (ice cream) his way out of having to go to Vietnam....put on so much weight that he couldn't pass the physical. Now, I wonder if that actually could have been true or not.

Assuming that prison authorities might (in general) be more mainstream than the draft-resisters, did they try to make things really tough on someone who was incarcerated for that? (like putting the person in a cell with hardened criminals)

Cheers and thanks

Rick