With no draft, the only people who went to war were those who wanted to, or at least those who wanted to join the military.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I hated the draft, but at the same time, it's something that made every American take war seriously.
So the whole of war, when you look at it is probably run by professional soldiers, and the rest of them are just recruits, or people who are just forced to join the army.
I was drafted during the Korean War.
Maybe the answer to Selective Service is to start everyone off in the army and draft them for civilian life as needed.
The Vietnam War was causing people to get drafted; I had received a deferment to finish my undergraduate education, and in order to continue to get a deferment, you had to go to graduate school.
That makes no sense for someone to say if they were drafted by their country, that they'd say no.
With the draft, everybody was involved. Everybody was fodder. When you got to be 21, 22 and graduated from college, for two years your life stopped. If you had been running in the direction of your life, you had to stop and do this other thing which was, if not menacing, just plain boring.
I was drafted during the Korean War. None of us wanted to go... It was only a couple of years after World War II had ended. We said, 'Wait a second? Didn't we just get through with that?'
I was drafted when I was 17, and I spent two years, and I lost a friend in war.
I was going to get drafted, but I didn't really want to go into the Army.