Vet here. So much of this rings true to me. 1) Back in 2006 I was single and in a college town wearing a USMC hoodie. I was chatting up these girls at a bar an

Vet here. So much of this rings true to me. 1) Back in 2006 I was single and in a college town wearing a USMC hoodie. I was chatting up these girls at a bar and they asked me what college I was at. I was totally miffed. Did they not know we were at war? Did what I was doing matter at all? And then after an awkward pause, I made an excuse and left their table. It was like we were different species living in different worlds. 2) I'm coming around to the notion that the draft could be a good thing because it forces people to think really hard before attacking someone else when your own butt is at risk. I'm 34 and I've seen two of my friends buried already. I really hope they are the last for awhile, but I still have friends deploying to these pointless wars in the Middle East today. Nobody cares enough to vote along those lines, and so my friends will keep deploying, because hey it's a job and it pays middle class income. People shrug and say "they're volunteers" but if you look at their other opportunities out of high school, it's more like a targeted draft of the poor.