Comment on Anon describes past

RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Oh woops i broke my ankle and an anti war doctor said I’ll never walk again.

  Oh woops I’m on extended vacation in Canada.

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  • vvilld@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    If you were not upper-middle class (or higher) and white, these really weren’t realistic options to avoid the draft.

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    • SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Im continuing the idealistic boomer life we are talking about in this thread

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• AtariDump@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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  • slaacaa@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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• leftzero@lemmynsfw.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Bone spurs.

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• BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  all these pussies breaking ankles and citing bone spurs know a real man shits his pants right in front of the officer

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  • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    found Ted Nugent’s lemmy account

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• morrowind@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  What % of the population actually fought in the war?

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  • booly@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Page 45 of this PDF has a good chart. It shows that about 26.8 million men were draft eligible in that generation, and about 8.7 million enlisted, 2.2 million were drafted, and 16.0 million never served, including about 570,000 apparent draft dodgers.

    About 2.1 million actually went to Vietnam, and about 1.55 million were in combat roles in Vietnam. 51,000 were killed.

    So roughly:

    • 41% of that generation of men were in the military
    • 8% of that generation went to Vietnam
    • 6% of that generation fought in Vietnam
    • About 0.2% of that generation died in Vietnam

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  • Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I guess that depends how poor and black they were.

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  • ilega_dh@feddit.nl ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Not enough to win it

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• echodot@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Not everyone in the world is an American of course.

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  • Machinist@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Picking up hitchhikers to Woodstock during the summer of '69 kind of narrows it down unless op was one of those maple syrup types.

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• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Don’t mind me, just thinking about how peaceful Americans were between 1949 and 1965

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  • Zealousideal_Fox_900@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeah north korea what an amazing place to live

    do you have an intellectual disability???

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    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah north korea what an amazing place to live

      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_North_Korea

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