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Spinzonner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-18-04 08:21 PM
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3. Yes, I resisted getting drafted into the Army

by joining the Air Force.

I know that's not what you really meant but given a choice between getting handed a gun and being sent to get my ass shot at (I would have been running the wrong direction, mostly), it seemed the wiser course since the Air Farce didnt send most first-termers to Vietnam except for a few jobs such as munition, Security Police ...

Spent 4 years in Virginia programming computers.

It wasnt exactly unusual. A lot of the college grads in my unit were in the same situation.

Was against the war. So, I wouldnt characterize it as being brave at all. Didnt have the courage of my convictions.

Have always considered myself a ChickenChicken (A'la ChickenHawk). Chicken about going to the war; chicken about putting myself on the line against it.
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  -Was anyone here a draft resister in the Vietnam War? bluestateguy  Jun-18-04 08:08 PM   #0 
  - I have one  seventhson   Jun-18-04 08:15 PM   #1 
  - I have your exact sentiments . and some of your experiences...  bahrbearian   Jun-18-04 08:25 PM   #4 
  - seventhson you are full of shit  TX VN Viet   Jun-18-04 10:23 PM   #9 
     - He DID go to jail (the brig)  seventhson   Jun-19-04 09:32 AM   #13 
     - Welcome to DU, TX VN Vet...  Gildor Inglorion   Jun-19-04 09:33 AM   #14 
  - Yeah I was 1970  bahrbearian   Jun-18-04 08:18 PM   #2 
  - Yes, I resisted getting drafted into the Army  Spinzonner   Jun-18-04 08:21 PM   #3 
  - A Chicken Hawk promotes War and never fights one.  bahrbearian   Jun-18-04 08:26 PM   #5 
  - No, jumped for joy when my birthday came up #199 and I went  Feeney2   Jun-18-04 08:27 PM   #6 
  - after running out of deferments  rchsod   Jun-18-04 08:34 PM   #7 
  - I think that Muhammad Ali's  H2O Man   Jun-18-04 08:52 PM   #8 
  - Heh! I *wanted* to Be!  Unperson 309   Jun-18-04 10:48 PM   #10 
  - No - Because you could have been jailed for that act of defiance  seventhson   Jun-19-04 10:26 AM   #23 
  - kick  bluestateguy   Jun-19-04 08:20 AM   #11 
  - I didn't have the courage....  Gildor Inglorion   Jun-19-04 09:30 AM   #12 
  - Lucky - But what you did took courage too  seventhson   Jun-19-04 09:42 AM   #16 
  - I enlisted so not me.  bearfan454   Jun-19-04 09:37 AM   #15 
  - bearfan . . .  Bertha Venation   Jun-19-04 09:46 AM   #17 
  - Thank you Bertha.  bearfan454   Jun-19-04 09:51 AM   #18 
  - I honor those who served honorably even though it was an immoral war  seventhson   Jun-19-04 10:20 AM   #22 
  - Me too. I enlisted in the Navy so I wouldn't get drafted.  XNASA   Jun-19-04 10:02 AM   #19 
     - Did you go through AAFEES in Chicago ?  bearfan454   Jun-19-04 10:20 AM   #21 
  - The SMARTEST thing Richard Nixon ever did was ending the draft  seventhson   Jun-19-04 10:12 AM   #20 
 

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