> special skills I find it interesting that you've used the exact word that they use, "special skills draft". I was on the draft board in my county during the

> special skills I find it interesting that you've used the exact word that they use, "special skills draft". I was on the draft board in my county during the Iraq war. To be clear-- the draft board was never activated, but I had found out that you could apply to be on it, and I was selected because basically nobody knew about it or wanted to do it. The reason I wanted to be on it, was there was lots of talk about a "special skills" draft for nurses and technical people. The idea was they could slip this one under the radar because the bulk of Americans wouldn't be concerned. Then it becomes much easier to expand the draft. I reasoned that if I was ON the draft board I couldn't get drafted, and that I could try to treat people compassionately.