Many were eligible for the draft and did not get drafted. My father had a deferment since he was in college at the time (born in 1951 - wasn't eligible for the draft until '69). With the birthday lottery system, his "number" each year still would not have been caused him to be drafted before the war was over.
So my dad - who by some freakish definition "dodged" his duty by not volunteering for combat - still managed to raise two young conservatives, one of whom HAS volunteered for military service in the midst of the war on terror. You don't have to serve in a combat unit, or serve in the military at all, to support a war or support the people fighting it.
And Kerry was back here screaming about the war being immoral and soldiers were baby killers. They were encouraging people to go to Canada, for goodness'sake. You are a brave, moral, principled war protester if you go to Canada, but you are a draft-dodger duty shirker if you get a legitimate deferment?
My head is going to explode!