The guys who served were the best and the bravest, the most selfless of American young men and the true descendants of the Founders.
The rest were excuse-finding weaklings that missed the chance to really find out who they were as men.
You can easily see why things descended rapidly from that rift in our concepts of manhood. And why unbelievably dippy styles like flowered shirts and bellbottoms existed.
One of my cousins married a fellow. back then who insisted right away
that they have a kid so he would not be drafted. They did, and that boy who kept him out of Vietnam did 2 tours in Iraq!!