Word: drafted
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...gladly sent off Blacks, Hispanics, and working class white kids to die in Vietnam, while their pampered children enjoyed the luxury of a "safe" upper class education back at home. Meanwhile, where was Rambo while America was losing the war in Vietnam? Stallone, according to Jack Newfield, "ducked the draft during the Vietnam War (although he looks physically fit to me)." It seems Stallone went to an elite private school in Switzerland, then from 1967 to 1969 studied acting at the University of Miami. On his acting days at Miami, Stallone reflects: "I learned it was possible to function without...
...allow such a face off; they will be busy clinking glasses and pouring champagne toasts to Sly, whose agent says is more than proud to carry the Harvard banner. It is perhaps unfair to single out Stallone for his support of a macho foreign policy, while himself avoiding the draft. After all, most of the leading Reaganites of draft age, Richard Perle, George Will, Paul Trible, Pat Buchanan, New Gingrich, Paul Weyrich, among others managed to get out of military service during the war. This Rambo coalition, known as the "war wimps," have become the dominant voice of American foreign...
Dawkins is essentially a lock to go in the first round of the NBA draft...
Recent events in the Middle East may force that choice upon American citizens of draft age and such a summer job will then be more than fiction. But even if the nation decides to wage war, the decision to fight must remain as personal as the choice of a summer job. An individual's position concerning a certain war's justness or morality must outweigh his committment to a collective national decision to fight. Because a soldier carries out the killing and destruction of the national decision to go to war, if he is not convinced a war is justified...
...choice, to go or not, which everyone of draft age must face and answer whenever the United States nears the posibility of war. I feel a war with Libya might be necessary and justified. I would support the war policy of my government by serving in the conflict...