Is there anyone on DU-3 who lived through Vietnam War Era..whose life was changed by the DraftWar?

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. My husband and I lived through that time; we were young then.

He had to register for the draft, of course.

We were very much opposed to the war, for many of the same reasons people oppose wars today.

He got deferred due to his graduate student work, and then again when we married and had a child. He could still have been drafted, but as he entered his late 20's, that got more and more remote.

And then he went to work for an essential industry, and that was pretty much it. I don't recall now if we ever had the "what to do if" conversation. And then it never happened anyway. He never got drafted.

It was different for my brother. He was a lot younger than my husband, and I think he felt it was inevitable he would be drafted. He dodged it by signing up. And he did go to Vietnam, as a point man.

It was a long scary year while he was gone, but he never got hurt. He came home and resumed his life: went to graduate school, met and married, had his family.

I think it's important to talk about. History has lessons to teach us, if we're open to seeing them, and learning from them...