Word: vietnam
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...crux of the national service debate centers on universal abhorrence of war. The silent majority allowed minorities and the poor to bear the burden of the Vietnam War. Future Armaggeddon can be forestalled only when Americans, of all classes and races, are forced to face the same risk of sacrifice in military service...
Falwell said that he would not rule out the deployment of American soldiers to the region. "We messed up in Vietnam, so I look at this as a second opportunity provided by the Lord...
...WAKE of the Conversative Club's recent hosting of a speaker who called for the quarantining of all gays, in the wake of Sisyphist slogans like "Defense of the Soviet Union Begins in Central America!," "Vietnam was a Victory!!," and "Defend the Deformed Workers' State Against Jewish Dissidents!!!," I have brought myself to make a personal decision which is quite possibly of world-historical import. I can no longer stand idly by and allow my fellow students to suffer under the dastardly delusions spawned by Harvard's most attention-getting speechifiers...
...THIS DICHOTOMY between the civil and military fields that best illustrates the inequality such a draft would foster. While the plan does and should aim at egalitarianism among those drafted, it cannot avoid discriminating against those without certain skills. It would certainly, as did the Vietnam-era draft, widen the gap between the privileged and non-privileged in society...
...America's peacetime military draft, which ended in 1973, had not been declared Constitutional during the Vietnam conflict, America's involvement in the undeclared war in Indochina would have been limited. Likewise, without a constitutional partial military draft today, war may seem less inevitable. In the event of a conflict Americans of all backgrounds should be universally drafted; but the nation should not actively prepare for such a possibility...