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In reply to the discussion: Is there anyone on DU-3 who lived through Vietnam War Era..whose life was changed by the DraftWar? [View all]HubertHeaver
(2,522 posts)118. Damn! Still no eyewittness he was in Alabama.
I had hopes.
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Is there anyone on DU-3 who lived through Vietnam War Era..whose life was changed by the DraftWar? [View all]
KoKo
Feb 2012
OP
I was there. I got the last draft number. It was too low to go and they never called me.
Vincardog
Feb 2012
#1
I worked on a military base that soldiers came through for courses they took. I even dated a
southernyankeebelle
Feb 2012
#8
Your point is well taken. It really did have an impact on people. I think the younger guys really
southernyankeebelle
Feb 2012
#15
Wow, I am sorry for your lose. Many good young men come back left with deep scars of emotions.
southernyankeebelle
Feb 2012
#26
The "dirty hippies" were a small percentage of the people who protested the war...
rfranklin
Feb 2012
#2
I hope you can convince your brother to post here (if he does not do so already). Failing
coalition_unwilling
Feb 2012
#69
Alas, my brother would never post here: he's the sole Republican in our family.
CaliforniaPeggy
Feb 2012
#94
+1 ....that's my take on "Communes" morphed into today's "Communities for Sustainable Living."
KoKo
Feb 2012
#111
I lived through it, both as a war protestor, and the spouse of a vietnam vet. one of the things
niyad
Feb 2012
#5
on the crux-- I turned 18 in '73, a high school dropout with a LOW lottery number....
mike_c
Feb 2012
#7
Minor quibble but Watergate would never have occurred without Vietnam, a point made
coalition_unwilling
Feb 2012
#70
Um, minor quibble, but I think the number of U.S. combat fatalities was
coalition_unwilling
Feb 2012
#71
And even sadder, more than that have taken their own lives after they got home.
AnotherDreamWeaver
Feb 2012
#113
Having lived through it, I would say that everyone living at that time who was of draft age, or
enough
Feb 2012
#12
Thanks for your post...It was what I was asking about. You are Not Vietnam..but a little Younger...
KoKo
Feb 2012
#38
born in 1956 - remember it as a horrible/stressful time. My parents were ready to ship me to Canada
NRaleighLiberal
Feb 2012
#18
I was A1 for two years and I was determined not to go even if I had to leave the country.
Sancho
Feb 2012
#19
As a result of the Viet Nam War, I became a full-fledged liberal and I'm never going back.
AnotherMcIntosh
Feb 2012
#34
Notwithstanding the inter-service rivalries, there are some cultural differences
AnotherMcIntosh
Feb 2012
#97
Of course, one would have to have been dead to not have been effected by that debacle...
Alameda
Feb 2012
#35
There was a huge shift in families-some survived, some not. Its never been documented. And should be
MichiganVote
Feb 2012
#36
Agree...there's never been a movie that showed how it affected the families and what it did to
KoKo
Feb 2012
#59
I was young and stupid. I joined the Navy before they started the lottery.
Stinky The Clown
Feb 2012
#47
"It is impossible today to describe the influence and ominous omnipresence of “the draft” to those
raccoon
Feb 2012
#89
I don't see how anyone who lived through Vietnam War Era, could say their life was not changed
raccoon
Feb 2012
#87
Many years after the war, my then-wife insisted she'd been unaffected by it
pinboy3niner
Feb 2012
#95
When they asked me to extend my enlistment to kill people for LBJ, I told them to fuck off.
Tierra_y_Libertad
Feb 2012
#100
Born in '53. Lottery number in mid-40s. Called for physical. Avoided physical. Got CO deferment.
onenote
Feb 2012
#104
Sorry to hear about your loss. It must have been extremely traumatic for you.
grantcart
Feb 2012
#115
I never got the sense from any documentary about Vietnam that it was not a mistake.
Jennicut
Feb 2012
#119