[geeks] Special skills draft?

[Patrick Giagnocavo]

On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 06:42:07PM -0500, Dan Sikorski wrote:
> Why should you go to fight, and potentially die for a cause you don't 
> believe in?  If your love and commitment to your country is less 
> important to you than your desire to avoid fighting a war, then the 
> obvious course of action is to leave.  It's not lame if you are 
> following your own beliefs.

Everyone here is aware that during the Civil War you could pay money
to someone else to serve in your place, right?  

The price was about $12 IIRC.  I have seen in one of my aunt's homes a
framed document to that effect; basically a receipt that such-and-such
had gone in the place of so-and-so.

--P