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>We didn't have conscription in WW1, ... There was a military draft in WW I: >...By the end of World War I, some two million men volunteered for various branc

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>We didn't have conscription in WW1, ... There was a military draft in WW I: >...By the end of World War I, some two million men volunteered for various branches of the armed services, and some 2.8 million had been drafted. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_Service_Act_of_1917 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_Service_Act_of_1917