People, the draft is NOT back (yet). Males have had to register for the SSS for a long time now and the change is that instead of them doing it themselves, the government is automatically registering them. That's all (again, for now).
Now, I think that is itself a bad thing, but saying that the draft is back is not at all accurate.
We have enough scary shit out there, don't make it worse.
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Agree, 60s student draft deferment program was rigged for white middle class males. My best friend and I went down to the local draft board office for a chat in 1966. We wanted all the information from them about the process beyond a deferment(we thought they were blatantly unfair). All old white guys there. At the office we both decided to 'volunteer' to be drafted immediately, agreeing if assigned to Vietnam we would not go. We both made it.....
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As a teenager in Montreal in the 60s and into the 70s, I was lucky enough to meet some very fine Americans, not much older than me. I met a girl when traveling in the States, whose brother was shot down (and survived). She said it was family that kept him from moving up here. So many lives changed.
One of the finer gentlemen who came was a beautiful soul, Jesse Winchester. He made an impression while he was here.
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