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Conus, you avoided the draft for Vietnam? Does this mean you are OLDER than I? have I lost my crown as Oldest Mocker?!?
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I'm 50 and turned 18 in 1972, a couple of weeks after Nixon and Kissinger saw fit to mine Haiphong harbor. I registered for the draft in Los Angeles County and was slighly worried at the time; the L.A. draft board was pretty notorious. I hadn't yet decided what I'd do in the event that I recieved a low lottery number, but I only saw two choices-- Canada or the five-year federal prison sentence. I was leaning toward the latter. Nothing against Canada, but it
is is a little chilly up there and the Canadian thing seemed like a life sentence as opposed to the possibility of parole after 2/3 of the federal sentence had been completed. As it turned out, my lottery number was so high I didn't have to sweat it.
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