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Dodging the Draft - College Paper

Dodging the Draft

Alex N. Goodwin
Hour 6
Mr. Huddleston
September 20, 2012

Dodging the Draft

Imagine living in a time where you're a senior in high school, you're the captain of the football team, and in national honor society. Then imagine getting drafted in the US army and the sky is falling. What could someone possibly do to avoid the draft? There were plenty of ways in the 1960's that a teenager could avoid the draft and being shipped out.

According to www.instructables.com [HYPERLINK: http://www.instructables.com] one of the ways to avoid the draft was being born to a rich family. Being rich someone typically have a few more connections than if in a lower income class. So it really wouldn't ...

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easy life compared to some people 20 years earlier) it was still an option for some who had no other options.

A way of avoiding the draft that I'm Going to discuss is religion. This was one of the legal ways to get out of the draft following info I received of off www.washington.edu [HYPERLINK: http://www.washington.edu]. As some people may know, based on the religion one may practice, they are opposed to war. This is not to say that even if it is against an individual's religion they can't serve for their country but it was just another way of dodging.

The way of getting out of the draft that seemed to be very common, was being physically or mentally unfit. People would drive themselves crazy, just so they wouldn't have to risk their own life. A lazy and relatively easy way to become physically unfit was to become a couch potato, do nothing, eat what you want, never work out... you name it. The crazy thing about it was that it was legal, and they weren't the one being ...

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Added: 11/8/2012 02:02:20 PM
Submitted By: alexgoodwin1
Category: American History
Type: Premium Paper
Words: 498
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