I ask myself repeatedly if I dodged the draft in 1970 by drawing 240 in the first lottery. I dropped my student deferment and went into the 1A pool. They never reached my number, and each year I dropped further back in the list.
Sometimes I wish I had enlisted with some of my friends, but didn’t do it. Regardless of the potential consequences I still have regrets to this day. Makes me appreciate the sacrifices of those who served even more.
So you didn’t volunteer but you did the things that would have left you eligible to be drafted if your number came up. Sometimes God has a hand in things too you know! I’ll bet your momma or somebody praised Jesus you didn’t have to go. We’ll all regret something to our death beds!
Hey you are a Proud American Freeper! That’s good thing!
I took a train from NIU, downtown Chi, stripped for the physical, and all the rest.
The crack medical team stamped my papers with an undescended testicle that actually belonged to the guy standing next to me. Rejected. 4-F , iirc.
I didn’t figure it out for several months when visiting the university health center.
While there I asked what’s an undescended testicle ? Why, asked the doc, you don’t have one.
Vietnam was in the headlines.....I didn’t go back to correct their mistake and can’t say I regret it.
Not doing anything to avoid it and not being drafted is not being a draft dodger or a draft evader, it just means not being drafted.