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To: zax who wrote (778727)	4/6/2014 1:49:44 PM
From: i-node	1 Recommendation Recommended By Bilow Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573927

Perhaps you are too young to know the difference, I don't know. But "draft dodging" is an illegal act like "tax evasion". Draft avoidance, OTOH, was commonly practiced during the Vietnam era when 100s of thousands of 18 year olds were being called on to fight a war that was started by Democrats, where the number of our soldiers was ramped up to 500,000 by Democrats, and in which 58,300 of our kids were killed by the decisions of Democrats. So, please spare me the attacks on Republicans whose numbers didn't come up. Every last one of us who registered for the draft when we turned 18 were hoping for high lottery numbers and doing whatever we could to gain a deferral. Of all the people I knew who served in Vietnam, a total of THREE enlisted. And they all did so because it was clear they would be drafted. None of these men "loathed" the military, AFAIK.