-> Hi Bob,   
   ->    
   -> On Sat 2012-Feb-25 10:36, BOB BREED (1:123/140) wrote to FRANK SCHEIDT:   
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   -> BB> Here we agree. :)  Looking back I have no problem spotting just when   
   -> BB> most lost faith with the government - and it's that damn VN war.   
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   -> YEp,for a variety of reasons.   
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   -> BB> I'd go even a bit farther in defining it:  The draft.   
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   -> BB> When it became evident that the sons of the upper class could   
   -> BB> escape, thus leaving only the poor subject to it, that became a big   
   -> BB> divisor.  That's why so many young men fled to Canada, and was   
   -> BB> really the first time the powers couldn't rally the masses to the   
   -> BB> cause. (What the hell ever that was?)    
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   -> That was the other part of why folks lost faith with their   
   -> government.  iN fact, I'm all for the draft, but imho it   
   -> shouldn't be a draft, it should be compulsory military   
   -> service, for every citizen, disabled, women, if you wanna   
   -> vote, you want the benefits of citizenship, you'll showup as soon as you   
   -> graduate from hs, or on your 18th birthday.   
   ->    
   -> I tried to enlist, my draft card said "subject to call" and   
   -> I told the man, I'm an experienced radio op. Remember back   
   -> then the navy still used MOrse.  The man laughed at me, my   
   -> card soon got switched to 4f.   
      
   I didn't sign up for the draft until I left the Army *after* WWII.  I was   
   too young for the draft when I enlisted.  It was odd but there was a   
   requirement for all of us in the Service who hadn't singed for the draft to   
   do so after we were discharged from the military.  we were all placed in   
   wot was called "the Inactive Reserve", meaning we could not be drafted   
   unless Congress changed the law.   
      
   At the Separation Center, after the war, it usually took about three days   
   for each of us to be processed and discharged.  The Army speeded that   
   process up to a single day FOR ALL WHO RE-ENLISTED IN THE *ACTIVE* RESERVE.    
   That group was eligible for immediate recall!  Ironically most of them   
   ended up on active duty during the Korean "war".  And all, to get out of   
   the Army a day or two sooner!   
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