These guys couldn't handle the breeze...

[TexasTowelie]

[CBGLuthier]

1. Another term that has completely changed meaning.

I would never condemn anyone for avoiding an illegal war through whatever means they have including the illegal ones which none if these men, with the arguable exception of Nugent used.

[murielm99]

2. I was in my twenties during

the Viet Nam war era. All the best, most thoughtful and brightest people were trying to avoid that war. Many of them could not avoid it. We lost so much.

[pinboy3niner]

3. 'Chickenhawk' is a better term

Chickenhawk does not (as 'draft dodger' does) include men who evaded the draft for reasons of conscience.

[Downwinder]

6. 'draft dodger' also includes those

who enlisted to have a choice of service.

[secondwind]

4. my husband did 4 months in federal minimum security prison for dodging the draft.. he was paroled

into the Army....

He went before a federal judge in Sept. of 1967, was sentenced to 90 days 'mandatory' (LBJ had just declared a 90-day minimum sentence for anyone caught draft dodging)... the judge was reluctant to sentence him because he had a clean record, and he recessed the proceedings in the hopes of finding another solution.. but to no avail.

My husband was paroled into the Army in January of 1968.. the MP's actually came to the minimum security prison in Petersburg, VA and took custody. There were many Jehovahs Witnesses in that prison, who were doing 5 years for refusing to go to war.. My husband had the option to do five years, but he took the 90-day minimum sentence.

He returned home safely in June of 1969... a little messed up in the head, very short-tempered, and had nightmares. We could not make the marriage work, and in 1971 we divorced. We are still good friends to this day

[malaise]

7. How sad

There were always different rules for the connected.

[krispos42]

5. "War for thee, but not for me".

Eager as hell to start wars, particularly wars of very questionably morality and legality and motive, but would never put their precious asses on the line.