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<blockquote data-quote="bacha29" data-source="post: 4887300" data-attributes="member: 58386"><p>In the closing days of the Vietnam War, every member of my senior class both male and female were sent down and ordered to take the so called &quot;Armed Forces Test&quot; . I would like to see them get away with that today. We hadn&#039;t even turned 18 at the time There were recruiters from every branch. Army, Navy, Jar Heads you name it. All of them were swinging that &quot; we can still draft you&quot; club over our heads. Given their attitude I and others simply said &quot;Ok, if that&#039;s how you fell about it then draft us&quot; . So on my 18th&nbsp; birthday I registered for the draft and simply waited for them to come for me. As it turned out low and behold I pulled out a 204 lottery number. Chances of them drafting that high was quite low. The day afterward I was bombarded with phone calls , letters etc. &quot; Hey, let&#039;s go to lunch .You did great on the test, we can talk enlistment over lunch, etc&quot;&nbsp; My answer consisted of two of the seven words the FCC has banned from the airwaves. I wasn&#039;t about to go running into a war that Nixon was running out of and the American people knew long before Washington did that Vietnam would be the first war America lost.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="bacha29, post: 4887300, member: 58386"] In the closing days of the Vietnam War, every member of my senior class both male and female were sent down and ordered to take the so called "Armed Forces Test" . I would like to see them get away with that today. We hadn't even turned 18 at the time There were recruiters from every branch. Army, Navy, Jar Heads you name it. All of them were swinging that " we can still draft you" club over our heads. Given their attitude I and others simply said "Ok, if that's how you fell about it then draft us" . So on my 18th birthday I registered for the draft and simply waited for them to come for me. As it turned out low and behold I pulled out a 204 lottery number. Chances of them drafting that high was quite low. The day afterward I was bombarded with phone calls , letters etc. " Hey, let's go to lunch .You did great on the test, we can talk enlistment over lunch, etc" My answer consisted of two of the seven words the FCC has banned from the airwaves. I wasn't about to go running into a war that Nixon was running out of and the American people knew long before Washington did that Vietnam would be the first war America lost. [/QUOTE]

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