I agree, it is an insult. I didn’t sign up for the military during the Viet Nam war. I didn’t like draft dodgers, either. Two friends joined the Army(which meant you served an extra year)in hopes of getting the MOS and avoiding Viet Nam with the duty station of their choice. They advised me to sign up for an extra year. I declined. As bad as the prospect of being sent into a no-win war was, I decided to take my chances with the draft and a year less than these guys. I got drafted and went to Viet Nam, but got out a year earlier than these guys, who went to Viet Nam anyway. Its no less patriotic being drafted than it is in joining. I served, but with the realization that we servicemen were being betrayed by a government that had no intention of winning the war.
“I served, but with the realization that we servicemen were being betrayed by a government that had no intention of winning the war.”
Sounds about right, felt the same way especially about the party that got us there.
I had some friends that I went to high school with that were drafted and were afraid of being drafted and I thought it was an awful way for them to to have to live, with that fear. I hope we can always just maintain a volunteer forces.
Thank you for your service.