Word: drafted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...recent press conference, the President honored those soldiers who sacrificed life and limb on the battlefields of Indochina. Just a week later, the Veterans Administration submitted "draft proposals" to Congress that would make a budget cut at the expense of those same war heroes. Veterans Administrator Donald E. Johnson said that the plan would lower payments for disability ratings held less than 20 years. Thus a Viet Nam veteran with a leg amputated at the hip would have his monthly compensation reduced from about $375 to $200; a veteran who lost his arm below the elbow would receive about...
...lived in Vancouver for three years. He works for $100 a week at a medical clinic, writing health manuals. A graduate of San Diego State, he left for Canada after learning that the FBI had called at his home one day while he was out (he had ignored two draft notices). Starkins likes Canada so much he plans to stay. "I wouldn't go back," he says, "except to visit my family and friends. The problem is not just the Viet Nam War. It is the whole social structure that's screwed...
...Bruce Thomas, 24, took off for Canada in 1969, after his draft board changed his classification to 1-A. He got a job as a recreation director in Slave Lake, Alta., and soon took over as editor of the weekly paper, the Lesser Slave Lake Scope. The paper keeps Thomas, his Alberta-born wife and one employee busy. A self-confessed "disturber of the social scene," he goes after conflicts of interest in the local council and finds frequent opportunity to warn his readers against the "rat race of U.S. life." Amnesty, he says, does not matter to him. "Some...
There are, of course, many other deserters and draft dodgers who want to come home now that the war has ended, but they do not dare face the risks. One Green Beret medic who deserted Army training at Fort Bragg, N.C., four years ago was arrested and was being court-martialed when he escaped and made his way to Sweden. Last summer he arrived in Canada with another American expatriate whom he had married in Stockholm. Now he wants to return to the U.S. "I have a feeling for the U.S. and the future," he says...
...cease-fire was an nounced, Pieffer set off for his home town of Seattle, in the words of his lawyer, "to settle things up with the Government one way or another." By a quirk of chance, a federal grand jury had finally got around to indicting him for draft evasion, and FBI agents were making a routine check of his sister's home when they encountered-and summarily arrested-Pieffer himself. He is now in Seattle's King County jail, with bail...