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(23,926 posts)neither of the candy-ass chickenhawks was ever sufficiently motivated to go ahead and actually FIGHT in one of them. Go figure.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Many evaded the draft in service to anti-war principles generally, or opposition to a particular war--often on moral grounds.
A chickenhawk is someone who hypocritically dodges serving personally while calling for other mothers' sons and daughters to be sent to war.
They are two VERY different things.
panader0
(25,816 posts)I told the folks at the draft that I wished to register as a consciencious objector. They asked me if I was Quaker or Amish and I said no, I just don't believe in going to another country and killing the people for reasons I did not believe in. I was denied on the spot.
I had met David Harris in Sept at my college in Oregon (noted anti-war protestor, president of the Stanford student body, and husband to Joan Baez) and he had helped convince me not to register. When I went back to Hawaii in Dec to see the parents, I was already deliquent. My dad, a career Air Force officer, went nuts. I was sent to an Air Force lawyer and a priest, but it wasn't until my mom told me that I was killing my dad that I decided to register. I was in college and had that deferment until I was expelled for having a girl in my dorm room. I drifted in Oregon, picking fruit with migrant Mexicans, working in the woods, etc. I had a general delivery mailbox, and when I saw a months old notice to report to my draft physical in Hawaii, I threw them away. So, in my own way, I am a draft dodger too. But unlike Cheney or Nugent, I am against all wars.
A few years later, I did take my physical in Phoenix.....that's a whole 'nother story.
Bottom line is that I have never served in the military. I have a tremendous respect for those that do. Peace.
hughee99
(16,113 posts)should not support any military action for any reason.
CBGLuthier
(12,723 posts)Just fucking bullshit really.
waddirum
(979 posts)who had more important things to do in 1968, like proselytizing LDS doctrine to the youth of Paris.
cali
(114,904 posts)being a draft dodger doesn't make someone evil