2006-11-28 12:50:12 · 14 answers · asked by kman1830 5 in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
I volunteered to go to 'Nam, why would I (or anyone) try to avoid doing my (our) duty to my (our) country?
I had a high enough number that I wouldn't have been drafted.
By joining, I eliminated the need to draft someone else.
It never ceases to amaze me that the ones who do try their hardest to avoid their duty to defend our freedom are the ones that insist on having it the most.
2006-11-28 13:00:24 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
If I'm eighteen, aware of what is happening in the middle-east and the draft was just reinstated, I'd be in a very thoughtful frame of mind. This is not World War Two, it's not to stop the world engulfing communism. This is a war that truthfully, we really don't know our President's objectives. If it was to topple Saddam, we should have left after Mission was Accomplished. That is the only mission that has been accomplished. From there on out it has been an ever increasing hot-spot of violence. As of today, to me, our President seems to be almost baiting Iraq and Iran insisting we will not leave Iraq until our mission is accomplished. The place is going up in flames! What IS our mission? I would go into the military, I would refuse to participate in the ? in Iraq. Peace
2006-11-28 13:28:12 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If there is a draft and you are called to serve it is your duty to do so. Freedom is not free, it comes with responsibility. One of those responsibilities is defending your country when called up to do so. I served in the Navy and upon separation was still required to sign up for selective service because I was still within that age group. I really couldn't understand why I needed to sign up being as I had already served, but I did my duty none the less. I think too many people these days take for granted the cost of the freedom we enjoy as citizens of the United States and it does not bode well for our future if the trend continues.
2006-11-28 13:02:40 · answer #3 · answered by Bryan 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I spent 20 years on active duty, and 10 years in the inactive reserve. My family has a tradition of Military Service that goes back to the Revolutionary War. My daughter is on active duty now. If my country needed me, I'd do it if it had to be from a wheel chair. Does that answer your question?
2006-11-28 18:09:48 · answer #4 · answered by rich k 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I could get out of it without trying to run some kind of phony excuse to get out of it.
It does not mean you will go into combat if the draft were to be started up again,it takes more people to support combat troops than to actually fight,but you will still receive basic combat training just in case you have to.
2006-11-28 13:00:27 · answer #5 · answered by Ralph T 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The draft is mandatory and nobody cannot run away from it except for valid reasons such as physical incapacity and medical reasons.
2006-11-28 12:52:39 · answer #6 · answered by FRAGINAL, JTM 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I enlisted when I was 17 in 1969. But .... for THIS war, I would stay out entirely.
2006-11-28 13:02:50 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't have to... I'm 62 and already served. But If I had it to do over again I believe that I'd enlist and be a "lifer"
2006-11-28 13:01:41 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
only by legal means...i don't believe in a draft tho. i don't like paying taxes either, but I do that too!
2006-11-28 12:54:15 · answer #9 · answered by BellyRubz 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I wouldn't but all you would see from the Democrats would be a$$es and elbows headed in the opposite direction.
2006-11-28 14:54:08 · answer #10 · answered by LadySable 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋