dakine01 @ 86

Uh, if I’m not mistaken, there was a draft pretty much continuously from WWII through Korea and Vietnam when it was ended during the Nixon years. It was not put in place strictly for Vietnam.

December 1, 1969 marked the date of the first draft lottery held since 1942. The difference with the Vietnam generation was the GI Bill. Instituted during WWII, was responsible for funding the educations of three Supreme Court Justices, three presidents, twenty-four Pulitzer prize winners, fourteen Nobel Prize winners, and millions of other professionals who have served our society for generations. The G.I. Bill has been credited with making the American dream possible for more Americans than any other program ever. Many of the children of the WWII and Korean generation were educated and affluent comparatively so to their parents and grandparents. Education was the catalyst in the dissent of the radical 60’s generation movement, IMHO.

Yes, the LOTTERY was re-instituted in 1969. But there were many young men that were INDUCTED by a non-random selection method by their draft boards PRIOR to 1969 in Vietnam, as well as in the Vietnam War.

Remeber that Elvis Presley was drafted in the “peacetime” interim between the Korean and Vietnam Wars. The spoof “Bye Bye Birdie” was based on this event. Willie Mays was drafted after WWII. James Garner (Maverick, The Rockford Files) was drafted and served during the Korean War, as did the authors of the films M.A.S.H. (Dr. Richard Hornberger a.k.a. Hooker) and “Deliverance” (James Dickey). Most of the 38,000 US troops that died in Korea were inductees…not enlisted men.

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Audrey — Rebotting will not help. It’s an IE problem. You have to switch to another browser — e.g. Firefox — until the glitch is fixed.

Don’t have one. Sorry–my bad. New computer. Teddy can’t get it on Safari either.