To: ansel12
For generations, with a much smaller population, America ran a military in the millions,There was a DRAFT then. Either you enlisted or were drafted. There were few exemptions.
52 posted on
08/28/2022 5:04:59 PM PDT by
pfflier
To: pfflier
And all the rich boys bought their way out of it. Been doing that since the Civil War.
54 posted on
08/28/2022 5:16:58 PM PDT by
Night Hides Not
(Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
To: pfflier
There was a DRAFT then. Either you enlisted or were drafted. There were few exemptions. 
59 posted on
08/28/2022 5:52:38 PM PDT by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: pfflier
It was far from being either enlisting or being drafted or else Vietnam would not have been fought overwhelmingly by volunteers.
Have people forgotten that men used to want to serve?
61 posted on
08/28/2022 5:53:38 PM PDT by
ansel12
(NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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