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To: AllSmiles
You are correct. We all knew guys from town who didn't come back or who came back with crippling injuries. There was a world of difference between 1968 and 1970. The draw down was in full swing and the Government had already turned its back. Let's not even get into the stories of good men killed because the draftee next to him was high.

The real moral dilema faced by those whose number was called was this....get killed in a war that our "leaders" had decided not to fight or run to Canada (over 90,000 ran). The problem with those who ran is that there was a quota. If you ran they just took someone else, someone who would have been safe. If you ran and the guy who went in your place died then you were responsible. I've always wanted to research the last guy drafted from Arkansas in the year that Bubba ducked. I wonder what sacrifice he made so Bubba could get high in UK.

147 posted on 12/04/2002 1:40:01 PM PST by wtc911
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