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I tried to enlist when I was 18 years old (1967), but turned away due to a severe knee injury. Weeks later I received a notice for a pre-induction physical for the draft, but was turned away once again when the physical I had taken for enlistment became known. Something about the military couldn't draft me if it wouldn't let me enlist. I had to undergo a major surgery to correct the problems with my knee then wait 5 years before I was finally allowed to enlist.

The draft issue is one our nation need to talk about now. I'm afraid if we wait until it is really needed it will be too late. Our military is much more reliant upon highly technological weaponry now than in WWII. It would require a good deal of time in training before draftees could be of any use in combat situations.

My appreciation to you and all that did not shrink from duty when our nation called. I have a sickening sense now that most young men, regardless of ideology or party affiliation, would shrink from the draft. I hope I'm proved wrong when the time comes, and that time is coming.

"I have a sickening sense now that most young men, regardless of ideology or party affiliation, would shrink from the draft. I hope I'm proved wrong when the time comes, and that time is coming."

I expect they are just as good as earlier generations of Americans. The way God made them, and their parents raised them.

Ready for a good drill instructor to shape them up into good soldiers, sailors, marines, airmen, etc.