Reply #18: I had the unpleasant experience of being drafted in 1966

[Lowell]

I went down to the campus and burned my draft card a couple months earlier. At the induction center they could have cared less, they had me by then. I didn't like the draft, but I ended up spending 15 years in the service. I liked the travel and lifestyle.

One thing I remember clearly was that when the last draftees left we lost a lot of good men. They had a higher education than most of the regular army and for the most part served well. It was the McNamara boys who gummed up the works. We actually had some who couldn't read.

I think that a draft would create a situation where our youth are put in harms way for bogus reasons. There is too much room for abuse by the administration. Hell, I'd rather fight them here. I got my own arsenal and know how to use it. But then we all know that is all just empty rhetoric on their part. They may have a small number of terrorist raising hell here, but regular troops, never happen.