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According to the law, no. But, I think it may be a more complicated question than that. Most people had things they would rather be doing than wading through a
by falsestprophet 18y ago
According to the law, no. But, I think it may be a more complicated question than that. Most people had things they would rather be doing than wading through a jungle full of surly Vietcong.
I think the fact that graduate student deferments were ended in 1969 simplifies the question. At that time a student could be deferred for the term of his undergraduate degree, but would then have to properly dodge the draft afterwards (like President Clinton for example) to keep out of the war.
(Interestingly second lieutenants suffered the highest casualty rate during the war, so their deferments ended up putting them in a disadvantageous position.)
- pg 18y agoI meant, do they count for purposes of this poll? Because that is probably the option most of the 1960s equivalent of News.YC readers chose at the time.
- falsestprophet 18y agoI understood what you meant. My response was less coherent than I would have liked. Let me try again. I don't think undergraduate deferments count, because most students would graduate before the draft ended. They would not escape the decision to illegally dodge the draft or go to war.