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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (221334)	3/1/2005 4:19:25 PM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) of 1576129

re: If you're 1A, you're chances are pretty lousy in any war. But the fact is they were handing out deferments like candy. That's what that 1 in 10 says. No, it's says people were adjusting their life to fit a niche that would dodge the draft. Hence the term draft dodger. Not a lot of folks took a year off to see Europe before they went to collage. re: "Combat"? Yeah, they aren't saying what that means. It seems to have varied all over. A paper cut in an air conditioned office in Saigon often seemed to do as well as facing Viet Cong mortars in rice paddies. My understanding is that you had to be on the offensive to be considered having seen combat. A mortar into a camp wasn't combat. But the "new draft", if it goes as suggested, wouldn't defer collage students, by far the biggest deferment in Vietnam. And that seems fair, why exclude someone just because he/she elects to go to collage? Unless you want to spare the elite. John

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