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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]flexnor
(392 posts)29. Romney believe that saving vietnam from communism was worth dying for, but
he beleived that saving the french from wine by converting them to his religeon was more important for him to be doing - but he could have loved to be in vietnam cheering everyone on
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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