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To: zarf
The end of the military draft was the beginning of the end for any sense of national identity.

Bilge. There was no draft between the Civil War and WWI, IIRC, and we did just fine with national identity.

Nobody who cares about winning in combat wants the draft back, it was a freakin' disaster and the Army and Air Force didn't really finish recovering from it until a decade after Vietnam.

40 posted on 04/05/2006 10:39:29 PM PDT by Mr. Silverback ("I was in such a hurry to climb that tree, I punched a squirrel.")
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To: Mr. Silverback; zarf; Calpernia

Say what you will, but I believe that jet travel, the massification of education, and the diversification of popular media have done more to fragement national identity than anything else.


41 posted on 04/05/2006 10:42:08 PM PDT by Clemenza (I Just Wasn't Made for These Times)
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