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I am not under any Hollywood illusions that our troops were all eager to join up, etc. I originally had “or drafted” in my post, but edited it out to uncomplicate the point. Bad choice I guess.

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There was extraordinary pressure for young men to sign up for the military.

The advertising and media campaigns made the Covid vaxx propaganda seem mild by comparison.

The peer/social pressure was very intense.

Those men who did not sign up were viewed as loathsome—the very bottom of the social pecking order.

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I remember talking to my father about this. He said every single young man he knew signed up for the military. Among his peer group failure to do so would have been regarded as nothing less than treason.