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The 60s? Don't have to fight in a war?
Are we just rewriting history to ignore Vietnam?
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.
If you were not upper-middle class (or higher) and white, these really weren't realistic options to avoid the draft.
Im continuing the idealistic boomer life we are talking about in this thread
Bone spurs.
all these pussies breaking ankles and citing bone spurs know a real man shits his pants right in front of the officer
found Ted Nugent's lemmy account
What % of the population actually fought in the war?
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:
I guess that depends how poor and black they were.
Not enough to win it
Not everyone in the world is an American of course.
Picking up hitchhikers to Woodstock during the summer of '69 kind of narrows it down unless op was one of those maple syrup types.
Don't mind me, just thinking about how peaceful Americans were between 1949 and 1965