I Did Not Volunteer For Vietnam But I Went Anyway. Draft Army Was As Good As Any. GOP Meme Is Crap.

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12. My father was a draftee in WWII.

He was a country boy and a former high school athlete (track and football), so they made him a First Scout in an infantry squad. He was 21 years old. His job was to move ahead of the unit to see if there were any Germans in the woods. If he found any, he had to run back and tell the sergeant how many there were and where.

He was wounded twice by shrapnel in the Battle of the Bulge. He lost a finger on his right hand and picked up chunks of metal in his back and leg that he carried with him until his death in 2015. He didn't talk much about the war, except to tell us as children that most of what we saw in the movies was bullshit.

Anybody who thinks that my father was an "inferior soldier" can go fuck himself.