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To: Ilaine who wrote (42815)	5/8/2004 2:30:49 AM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793717

Thanks- I really feel dumb. I still can't find how they did the drafting except that the older men went first- so I guess Kerry at 23-24 would have definitely been at risk at that point. I did find this statistic- Of the 26.8 million men who were eligible for the draft between 1964 and 1973, only 2.2 million were drafted while 8.7 million joined voluntarily. And also I learned that if a draft were reinstated today, it would use a lottery system under which a man would spend only one year in first priority for the draft - either the calendar year he turned 20 or the year his deferment ended. Each year after that, he would be placed in a succeedingly lower priority group and his liability for the draft would lessen accordingly. In this way, he would be spared the uncertainty of waiting until his 26th birthday to be certain he would not be drafted. I also learned that Joan Baez was arrested in 1967 but nothing about exactly how they called people up. I guess I just can't google like you!