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On 9/23/2014 6:29 AM, F*O*A*D wrote:
On 9/22/14 10:47 PM, wrote:
On Mon, 22 Sep 2014 21:44:18 -0400, F*O*A*D wrote:

On 9/22/14 9:37 PM, wrote:
On Mon, 22 Sep 2014 18:08:52 -0400, F*O*A*D wrote:

Oh, yeah, you boys were really at risk during your enlistments...
Paper
cuts and all...

Climbing in the superstructure in a North Atlantic storm in December
is a tad more dangerous that drowning from a beer bong in the dorm.

If those were your choices, you made the wrong choice.

Yeah I suppose I could have dodged the draft and sat around the frat
drinking beer and smoking dope. How was it?

I would not have traded my experience for your choice.

I don't know "how it was," as I didn't dodge the draft or drink much
beer. I didn't like beer all that much back then, and I don't like it
all that much now.

The majority of military-aged young men were *not* drafted during our
debacle in Vietnam. There were many, of course, who enlisted in order to
avoid the draft. Weren't you one of those?

What about dope? I'll bet you did a lot of that.