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{Politics.811.9}: Between Korea and Vietnam {texlib} Wed, 17 Sep 2008 12:33:30 EDT (26 lines)
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I only had one close call.  I was called up during the Cuban "missile
crisis" in 1962.  I remember
it well as I was required to drive 100 miles north to South Bend, in
order to catch a bus from the draft bureau office to ride a bus 140
miles south to Indianapolis, to stand in line all day in my underwear
briefs.
Then I had to ride that bus back to South Bend, in order to drive my
car back south, arriving at my frat house after midnight with a
physics mid-term the next morning at 8 a.m.  Do you think my draft
board would allow me to just drive directly to the physical facility?
 NO!  Do you think my physics
prof would let me take the "make-up" instead?  NO! He said I should
have been prepared two days before the test!  I wasn't and got a "D"
that helped to remove me from the pre-med program within a year as I
had lost my "B"
average (and full ride scholarship) that was the minimum required by
medical schools then.  I transferred to the U. of Houston School of
Architecture!  So that draft physical contributed to a life-changing
event for me.

I remember I scored high on all of the tests and in an interview, an
officer told me that since I was pre-med, not to worry in case of war
as they would wait and "get me"
when I had finished med school as I would be much more valuable to the
military then!  But by 1966, when they did begin drafting for Vietnam,
I was over 26 and "too old" to be of service!

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