On Sat, 6 Mar 2021 10:22:13 -0500, jmcquown >
wrote:

>On 3/4/2021 11:06 AM, wrote:
>> On Thursday, March 4, 2021 at 9:14:06 AM UTC-6, Gary wrote:
>>>
>>> I did pass up the opportunity, in 1971, to join the military and get an
>>> all-expenses paid "one year vacation" in Vietnam. ;o
>>>
>> Not everybody who got drafted went to Vietnam. If you scored high
>> enough on your tests you were most likely stationed somewhere
>> else.
>>
>Even if you *enlisted* you didn't automatically get sent to Vietnam. I
>know someone who joined the Army in 1968. They sent him to Alabama.

Isn't that worse?

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