I had to sign up for the draft in high school. I remember wondering if I was going to have to go to war for a couple of years. Anyone else remember signing up for the draft? I had a really big blond afro when I signed and the soldiers doing the draft looked disgusted.
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I think you are around my age @jukebox which draft are you talking about? I don’t remember a draft- too young for Vietnam
Yes, of course I signed up for the draft. And . . . I got picked!
Jayster
I signed up my senior year. There was no war but they still signed teens on for the draft. wow Jayster, you went to war? what branch of service?
I know I had to sign up with the selective service when I turned 18…I thought this was still going on? It puts your name in a database to be drawn in the case of conscription…so yes I signed up for the draft but luckily there was no draft.
I do remember however the night after the towers came down driving around with my friends wondering what the heck was going on and whether we were going to be drafted and sent to someplace like Iran…one of the girls asked us all if we’d go if we were drafted and I remember we all said that we would. I’ll never forget that conversation that night.
It is. Every man has to register with Selective Service when they turn 18.
wow, I didn’t think they did that anymore. Sad.
I had no idea…
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Could be much worse…in some countries military service is compulsory…we only get called up in the case of a major world war or something of that sort.
This is reminding me of one of my imagined memories in which I did way too much coke and ended up walking smack into the middle of the American revolution…smell of gunpowder and all. Wieeeeeerd.
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I don’t get it ?
If you “Had” to sign up, then what does “Signing up” mean?
Doesn’t signing mean that you give “your” approval of something ?
Beer can be drafted, but no signatures here.
Good to see that you are okay.
I signed up for the selective service just a few days ago, four days after turning eighteen I do hope we don’t go to war, I do not wish to be picked.
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They let you in?
Sorry, not a male, and no not old enough for that war either. One of my Uncles volunteered to go to Vietnam though, according to my dad he hasn’t been right since he came back. They think he may have been a victim of that Agent Orange.
I remember that somewhere along in the Viet Nam war was they came up with a sort of lottery + everyone put their number in the hat. If yours was picked you went. It was supposed to make things impartial. My brother’s name was in. He was in college + he + all of his friends never got picked. No one they knew there did. So it might have been rigged.
I think if you’re in college, you usually aren’t drafted.
In my country, there is national service; when I was a young I was chose to assist every Saturday during one year in the camp. I think that it was an interesting experience.
Tolteca.
At that particular time people were complaining about discrimination about who was drafted + who was not. So everyone of draft age was assigned a number. The numbers were essentially to be picked out of a hat completely at random + if your number was drawn, you went. The list of numbers came out in the paper each week + you looked to see if yours was there. It kept my brother on pins and needles.
sorry for you and your brother pob. wow, that must have really put you guys through the ringer. I feel sorry for those who even had to worry about the Viet Nam war.
I signed up for Selective Service at 18. The last draft was during Viet Nam, and I was about 4 years old at the time. They wouldn’t take me anyway because my high school counselor made sure all my teachers knew I had psychotic tendencies. That’s a whole 'nother can of worms.
Good side of being ill, I suppose. You can sign up for selective service but not worry about being drafted. Even if you are they won’t send you to war.