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Incident 2 Military Draft Analysis
Event 2: Military Draft

1) What was your reaction to the draft and the possibility of being drafted? How did you view your future?

I was scared shitless, nervous, oh god so scared. I didn’t ever think of my future. My God, there wasn’t even time to think more then a week into the future. Can you imagine having to think about the possibility of becoming a murder against all your beliefs, God, how badly I thought about it at night and how scared it made me.

2) How did you avoid being drafted?

I appeal numerous draft notices for several years thru my student deferment.
When I received the 2 draft notices in a week, & the draft board took away my student deferment, my parents suggested I go to live in Canada with my cousin.

3) What was your attitude on war before you were threatened with being drafted? …show more content…
It took me being drafted to really know I guess. When I was in high school I guess I can’t recall the war I didn’t pay attention cause it didn’t effect me which is kind of ironic seem I got so big in protest at a later point in time. I remember "The Ballad of the Green Berets" being on the damn radio though. I registered with the draft on my 18th birthday, a few weeks after graduating high school. Then I moved south. Then I remember having to apply for my student deferment. That’s when my attitude of the war at least became known to myself, I was scared and angry.

4) Do you believe that your life would have been different had the draft not happened?

Well, yeah. I’m sure everyone thinks
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