Appeal for draft board volunteers revives memories of Vietnam era

[MORTARDUDE]

I have gotten into 3 very heated arguments in the past 3 weeks about the National Guard and The Reserves. In all cases, non-veterans ( one being my wife who should know better... ) made totally asinine comments about those units being used in the war in Iraq. I proceeded to tell them that the horror show many of us were involved in from 1959 - 1975, became a horror show in large part because those units were not sent in first, as they were in 1898, WW 1, WW 2, Korea, and Desert Storm. I gently, at first, reminded them of what our options were with the draft. The draft is just a vague memory in most people's minds under 35....They have no clue... I sometimes wonder how the U. S. Army survived at all....

Larry