On Thu, 24 Aug 2017 07:15:33 -0400, Keyser Soze
wrote:

On 8/24/17 7:04 AM, Mr. Luddite wrote:

Most guys in my age group in the 1960s never got drafted.


You didn't have to be drafted to serve your country.



I don't accept your premise. If you volunteered for the military during
those days, you were enabling the slaughter of SE Asians, even if you
were stationed in Germany, Alabama, or Washington, D.C. If you really
wanted to serve your country during those dark times, you could have
become a fireman, a teacher, a social worker, et cetera.

How did I "enable" the killing of Asians when I was sitting in the
North atlantic on a Coast Guard cutter? Were the Vietcong cruising
around there in diesel subs or were they cleverly disguised as the
airliners we tracked flying overhead?