[Antoninus]

Here's my take: if there is no exemption for being a father, you would somehow be found to be physically, mentally, or morally unqualified for military service. Your draft board would, somehow, assign you to category "4-F."

How about this: Society back then acknowledged and celebrated the role of father and mother in creating stable families--the building blocks of any civilization. The government recognized the great harm that could be done by removing parents from large numbers of families to serve in the war.

Today, such notions seem quaint and antiquated. And we have huge numbers of children born out of wedlock, a thriving mental health industry, and a culture that finds it perfectly acceptable for single mothers to abandon their children to fight in a war overseas.

Sew the wind, reap the whirlwind. And we're only feeling the first breezes now.

[BeHoldAPaleHorse]

How about this: Society back then acknowledged and celebrated the role of father and mother in creating stable families--the building blocks of any civilization. The government recognized the great harm that could be done by removing parents from large numbers of families to serve in the war.

And great numbers removed themselves anyway.

But you, of course, would never do such a thing.

Like I said, somehow, by a miracle of God, if you were faced with a real possibility of being conscripted into the military, you would manage to get yourself declared 4-F.