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Originally Posted by fintstone
..... there were plenty of legitimate ways to get a deferral (education for example) which postponed competing in the draft or medical (if a physical problem)....
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The draft in the Vietnam era was the most illogical, corrupt, unfair system that could have devised by a bunch of bureaucrats. Yes, the rich, famous and connected were seldom if ever drafted but they avoided the draft under the radar, not by publicly refusing to be drafted and suffering the consequences of that decision. I have tremendous admiration for those who had the courage of their convictions as Ali did.
and yes, I was intimately familiar with draft. I enlisted and spent four years in the USAF rather than 2 years in the army as the odds of ending up in Vietnam were considerably less in the USAF...