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Keyser Söze

On 3/16/16 2:54 PM, wrote:
On Wed, 16 Mar 2016 12:58:34 -0400, Keyser Söze
wrote:

On 3/16/16 12:51 PM, wrote:
On Wed, 16 Mar 2016 12:39:23 -0400, Keyser Söze
wrote:

There is nothing in the Constitution that
requires military or any other form of government service or duty, and
therefore there is no requirement, period.

There are plenty of social "obligations" that are not defined in the
constitution. It would have been easy for me to dodge the draft by
hiding in school. I had signed an "intent" letter with the CG when I
was 17 but those are really not binding.
It could be that I took JFKs words to heart "ask what you can do for
your country".

I was cognizant of what was going on in SE Asia while I was in college
and immediately after, and felt a social obligation to speak out against
the horrors we were perpetrating there to prop up a brutal dictatorship.
I was working and obtaining a master's degree immediately after college,
and while working at The Star was offered a government position that
would have fulfilled a social obligation (agricultural assistance to
farmers) in Vietnam, but by the time I was trained and ready, the
position had been discontinued.

I had already enlisted before most people even knew where Vietnam was.
After all it was a place where LBJ had just said we would never send
"American boys". Dodging the draft was not really much of an issue
because few actually got drafted and if you did, the worst thing that
would happen is you would be sent to New Jersey.

I was in college full time and working full time until the late 1960s.