Interesting to me that people who purport to be champions of the working class on here don't recognize that poor and working class men were not only most vulnerable to being drafted, but were also horribly neglected by our atrocious safety net upon their return.

It was harder to go to jail or move to Canada if you were a poor kid or a black kid than it was if you were a middle class kid or a white kid. Don't think we should assign moral values to these decisions.

Imagine having been an impoverished black 18 year old in the 1960's and now having some dude on the internet tell you you didn't make the right moral choice by not going to jail.

Also, as many have pointed out in my mentions, if you had the means to not be drafted, that same slot went to someone else. People w/ means conscientiously avoiding the draft is well & good but that doesn't mean they didn't contribute to a system that pressured ppl w/ less means.

And as many others have pointed out, even choosing to join the military is one of the only options for lower SES kids. And this remains true today. Attack the higher ups who make bad decisions. Fight for a better safety net. Leave vulnerable people out of it.