[Tennessee_Bob]

If they reinstate the draft I will personally help any young man go to Canada

Won't do any good. Canada will send them back. But if they want to leave and go somewhere else, Delta has flights leaving everyday. Take a poll among the young men you know and see who would dodge the draft - buy them a ticket now and take them to the airport in order to avoid the rush.

I have no respect for anyone who would run away. My cousin was a conscientious objector during Vietnam. He went down, let the recruiter know he was a CO, and enlisted in the Army as a medic. He served two tours in Vietnam as a medic. He didn't run away, he ran to the sound of the guns. He has my utmost respect. The people I saw protesting in DC after dad got stationed there (after he came home from Vietnam) - I have no respect for them - they deserve none.

[gunnedah]

It is not a question of respect-it is a question of manipulation-Load yourself up- bring along Clinton,Gore and a damn garrison of the rich and powerful,then throw in a hundred or so lawyers and I will even go with you-but I say hell no,no more sacrificing the young and those who dont have the protection and know not any better. Vietnam and its sacrifice should have taught some of you how this country was being run and manipulated.For years I despised those that dodged the draft in Nam- but they are the ones running this country now and the ones who are in position to send our sons to die for them. You have to be crazy or uninformed.Hell the slaves were treated better than the average Joe that was in NAM!The military with a draft is nothing more than a form of enslaving the poor to fight the rich and powerfuls battle.The same is happening with Saddam & Bin Laden.

[arm958]

He served two tours in Vietnam as a medic.

No wonder you're proud of him. In WWII, medics were scorned in training, since many of them were conscientious objectors. When the bullets started flying, their comrades in arms began to understand that they were actually the bravest of the brave.