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

[Alameda]

35. Of course, one would have to have been dead to not have been effected by that debacle...

as a female, I was not subject to the draft, but it impacted all of us of age or soon to come of age at the time. How well I remember the young men claiming to be gay, getting stoned so as to fail physicals. The young men who went to Canada, those who went into the Army or some other service. I never called anyone a baby killer but I wouldn't go out with anyone who was in the military either.

I was part of the transition generation. We were not quite Boomers. Consider who was in that generation, Dylan, Baez, John to name a few. Some of our earliest memories were of the Nuremberg Trials, and we were old enough to have watched the Eichmann trial live on TV, and had some understanding of what went on. Given what we grew up with it's no wonder we questioned the Vietnam war and the participation of our soldiers in it.

There was the silence when meeting someone who was in Vietnam. What could one say? If they went into the Army or they didn't, it caused a great deal of pain and wounds for a whole generation.

Joining the military was a rite of passage until the Vietnam war. I had friend,s and cousins who were older than me who were in the military who went to various places, saw the world and learned some new skills. When Vietnam happened everything changed. Also, I think the consciousness brought about by the Eichmann trial changed a lot of minds.