[geeks] Special skills draft?

[Geoffrey S. Mendelson]

Joshua Boyd wrote:
> > 1. Get married (many very relegious women do)
> 
> Does that work for men?

no.

>  
> > 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.  

It's pretty lame here too.  


> 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.  

It was pretty hard to get a C.O. excemption. If you were not a member of
a Quaker meeting it was almost impossible.

Geoff.

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