On Sun, 08 Feb 2004 21:17:35 GMT, Dale Scroggins
wrote:


Same thing with Guard recruitment. Apparently, in all states except
Texas, young men were beating down the door at Guard units all over the
country. After the war, lots of units began having trouble filling
slots. Why were all these young men so interested in joining the Guard
during those years?

You apparently believe these young men were not trying to "dodge" the
draft. I believe they were. And I believed it in 1970, long before the
term "political spin" came into use. So who brainwashed me back in 1970?

Dale Scroggins

Hell yes they were trying to dodge the draft, and there is no shame in
it. They at the least put themselves in a situation where they
performed some service to their country.

They didnt split for Canada. and indeed a number of Guard units did
ultimately wind up in RVN.

The Vietnam was was not only a watershed in American history..but its
universal unpopularity in the late 60s caused a lot of young men who
were indeed patriotic to review exactly what was being asked of
them..and found it to be wanting.

Gunner

"To be civilized is to restrain the ability to commit mayhem.
To be incapable of committing mayhem is not the mark of the civilized,
merely the domesticated." - Trefor Thomas