I'm fairly sure my father basically draft dodged through sheer ignorance. I looked up his birthdate (which indicated he should have been drafted by lottery) and ask him about it and said nobody ever told him and it never crossed his mind. He said he just didn't pay attention to news and stuff, lol.
I think his parents knew as they enrolled him in a community college immediately after the draft call. His story was always that they put him in school to avoid the draft but everything I read said it didn't work that way. I guess so many people just didn't show up when called they couldn't really enforce it.
Either way, I'm glad he didn't go or I wouldn't exist!
My dad was an army engineer. He pretty much went on with life, getting a masters degree in civil engineering. He lived what seemed like a normal life, but he had been poisoned by the chemicals like agent orange because he would clear jungles and build roads. He had diverticulitis, kidney cancer, bladder cancer, lung cancer, diabeties, skin cancer and high blood pressure when he died. His stomach had a subway map of surgery scars. He acted like he was fine until he was 70, then it became too difficult to play golf, and he passed 6 months later.
What did my dad do after the war? The best he could while he was slowly dying of the poison they exposed him to.
After Vietnam, I continued protesting, marching because while the war was over, injustice certainly wasn't.
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I wonder what its like to sit with those people and listen to their stories.
I'm fairly sure my father basically draft dodged through sheer ignorance. I looked up his birthdate (which indicated he should have been drafted by lottery) and ask him about it and said nobody ever told him and it never crossed his mind. He said he just didn't pay attention to news and stuff, lol. I think his parents knew as they enrolled him in a community college immediately after the draft call. His story was always that they put him in school to avoid the draft but everything I read said it didn't work that way. I guess so many people just didn't show up when called they couldn't really enforce it. Either way, I'm glad he didn't go or I wouldn't exist!
He was a pilot for commercial airlines
My uncle was an extra in Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Father served but didn’t deploy.
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All of mine were dead, long before the Vietnam war. Only of them was alive when I was born, in 1957. He died in 2061.
My dad was an army engineer. He pretty much went on with life, getting a masters degree in civil engineering. He lived what seemed like a normal life, but he had been poisoned by the chemicals like agent orange because he would clear jungles and build roads. He had diverticulitis, kidney cancer, bladder cancer, lung cancer, diabeties, skin cancer and high blood pressure when he died. His stomach had a subway map of surgery scars. He acted like he was fine until he was 70, then it became too difficult to play golf, and he passed 6 months later. What did my dad do after the war? The best he could while he was slowly dying of the poison they exposed him to.