Not to stick my nose in here, but there is an important difference: The people of your next door neighbor’s and brother’s generation were made of FAR sterner stuff than the current potential crop of draftees. A drafted army from today’s young people would certainly include some similarly strong people, but it would also include a vast number of spoiled entitlement-minded soft-brained children in barely adult bodies. It would be a nightmare for military preparedness and effectiveness. Just MHO, of course.
It was uphill, both ways.
We were lucky if it didn’t snow and we had boots.