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To: Tuor
Are you saying you didn't want to go and fight?

No, I wanted the Navy, and had the chance to do so by enlisting.

98 posted on 05/09/2002 5:51:46 AM PDT by Ole Okie
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To: Ole Okie
Okay then...you enlisted because you wanted to do your part, not because of the existance or lack of a draft. You volunteered.

While I don't know this for certain, I imagine that the vast majority of those who joined the military for WWII did so not because they thought they'd be drafted anyway, but out of a sense of patriotism and honor.

I, also, served in the Navy during wartime (albiet merely the Gulf War). I wouldn't want draftees in my division: listening to them bellyache and drag their feet while we were working our butts off doing our jobs. I heard *reservists* doing this: among draftees, it would only be worse.

I suppose draftees would make good cannon fodder, but I will always believe that a motivated volunteer force is far more dangerous and effective than any number of unhappy draftees. And yes, I think they'd mostly be unhappy because if they *wanted* to fight, they, like you, wouldn't have had to be drafted.

Tuor

99 posted on 05/09/2002 5:58:51 AM PDT by Tuor
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