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When the US had a draft
- Thread starter danmand
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Even though I was just a kid at the time of Woodstock, I can remember that there was a lot of anti war/free love shit happening. But my big question I guess is, where the fuck was Country Joe, et al, when Bush Jr. was president? `One, two, three, what are we fighting for? I don`t give a damn. Let`s get Sadam!`
There weren't color movie cameras there to film it for you. But you might cast your mind towards the Québec Conscription Riots of Easter 1917 and the similar agitation in November 1944.
Even though I was just a kid at the time of Woodstock, I can remember that there was a lot of anti war/free love shit happening. But my big question I guess is, where the fuck was Country Joe, et al, when Bush Jr. was president? `One, two, three, what are we fighting for? I don`t give a damn. Let`s get Sadam!`
He was born in 1942
The US didnt have conscription they had a draft and every eligible male when they reached the age of 18 was sent a draft card(unless you were rich) and was expected to serve in a war that was so incredibly wrong and barbaric that thousands of young men dodged the draft and fled to Canada. I met alot of them when I lived in Vancouver and later in Alberta. I met a young man on the beach in Hawaii one time who was on leave from Vietnam, he sat and cried his eyes out because he had to go back in a few days. I found out the next day the pulled his body from the water. Unlike other wars ware Americans were proud to serve nobody wanted this. Its was a huge contributor to what they called the counter culture. BTW later the US government gave amnesty to all draft dodgers which was as much as an admission that the war was a travesty. Thank you JFK
Of course that was Vietnam, there was also a draft in World War I, World War II, and the Korean War not to mention periods of peacetime. The exemptions were far more narrow prior to Vietnam.The US didnt have conscription they had a draft and every eligible male when they reached the age of 18 was sent a draft card(unless you were rich)
Of course that was Vietnam, there was also a draft in World War I, World War II, and the Korean War not to mention periods of peacetime. The exemptions were far more narrow prior to Vietnam.
They have done away with the draft in North America, because it is much, much easier for the politicians to send professional soldiers to the other side of the world to kill brown people. The occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan would have ended many years earlier if the US had a drafted army.
Most people regard a conscripted army as posing serious moral problems that a volunteer army does not.They have done away with the draft in North America, because it is much, much easier for the politicians to send professional soldiers to the other side of the world to kill brown people. The occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan would have ended many years earlier if the US had a drafted army.
Shall I point out that Denmark also has a volunteer military.
