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mojo,
i think you're on the right track except for the machinations of the draft process. i've always understood it to be that the people sliding through vietnam had made themselves ineligible for the draft, but once you were drafted there was little that could be done if you wanted to avoid service.
all this was happening way before my time... perhaps a salty-ol-TFPer can help us out?
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If you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance for survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.
~ Winston Churchill
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