[geeks] Special skills draft?

[Joshua Boyd]

On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 03:43:25PM +0200, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:

> Here it's much like that. The average person has these choices:
> 
> 1. Get married (many very relegious women do)

Does that work for men?
 
> 2. Leave the country never to come back for more than a month.

Obviously a lot of people in the US did that during Vietnam.  I think it
is kinda lame.  
 
> 3. Do national service (relegious girls usualy do it, but difficult for men
> 	to get accepted).
> 
> 4. Get a relegious excemption (only valid if you study in a relegious
>    school about 45 weeks a year for the rest of your life)

My understanding of when we had the draft was that it wasn't
particularly hard for men from pacifist religious groups to be allowed
to do some sort of national service instead of being drafted during
Vietnam.  
 
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