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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Road Walker who wrote (220833)	2/27/2005 12:01:56 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573988

There are some matters you forget. The simple fact is far more people got educational deferments than ever were drafted and far, far more than that ever saw Vietnam. And then there was that big defense industry, far, far bigger than the military. Jobs there mostly came with occupational deferments. Then there was the family deferment. I don't remember the number, but if you had 1 or 2 kids, the military didn't want you; you came with too much baggage and expense. Many women got turned into baby factories to use that loophole. And pretending that physical deferments were the only type that would keep you out of the military is silly. There were a number of other types that could get you out. And, as Tim pointed out, the fact that you “were there” is a rather poor statistical argument. 3,000 people died as a result of buildings collapsing after being hit by jetliners in 2001. Does that mean I should never enter a skyscraper again?