[Protagoras]

During the cold war in the fifties, before Vietnam, either a man went to college or he went into the military for two years.

Post WWII things were different. And people wanted the GI bill to go to college before all the govt. giveaway education programs for those who didn't serve.

[Conservababe]

Perhaps I did not make myself clear. Men were drafted into the military unless deferred, in the fifties.