if you were getting drafted

i'd change my name to Muhammed

 

Ahahahaha... I love that

 

I can tell you're from Canada.

 

I'm glad my grandfather served, very glad. I am also really glad he provided a good enough living where my grandmother could stay home and be supportive towards him and my mom and uncles. I am sure he would have gotten very depressed and even more anxious spending over a year in vietnam without a solid family to come home to and knowing that his wife was safe. If my grandma had to fight in a war or go into a war torn country I could so easily see my grandad having a mental break down. Men need us more than we give ourselves and them credit for. I'm cool with not being able to fight on the front lines...more than cool with it and I on't see any men coming down on my responses.

I want to have choices-not be forced into radical fiminism that does not allow me to choose my own gender idenity. I know who I am, there's no grey area like there is with a lot of women. In being this way men always know where they stand with me too and in most of my relationships I have known that no matter what happened with me I could always count on somone emotionaly and financially. Would my relationships have been that way if I insisted on paying half for everything and talked about how I wanted to be able to fight on the front lines and had a pity party for myself because I didn't have 'equal rights'-I don't think i would have attracted most of my partners and what I would have offered they wouldn't need-because they are already men-they don't wanna be with a woman that acts like another one.

 

I have 1 son who has already been to Iraq & another son going thru basic training now.....but I would run to Canada (is there any Buddhist retreats up there)

 

At 45 and with my eyesight I am not eligible for the draft. I came of age during the Iranian hostage crisis. Because of that and our Cold War relations with the Soviets at the time, President Carter reinstituted the draft.

I honestly do not know what path I would have chosen. My late father was career military.

For me to fight it would have to have been something I truly believe in.

If I would have been drafted for example in the Vietnam or Korean era I would have gone to Canada.

If I would have been drafted in the WWII era, I would have fought.

 

Well they don't allow openly gays to serve right, so what if you went down for your physical and what not and were just like "Dude, I'm so gay, so ridiculosuly gay, and a nympho too. So yea, you don't want me, so I'm gonna leave."

 

Our government is very inconsistant when it comes to gays serving in the military. When the government needs bodies because it is involved in some type of activity gay/lesbian soldiers are acceptable. However, when the military action is over then it is time to witch hunt. I have friends and acquaintances who were Vietnam and Persian War Veterans. Their miltary service was fine as long as the government was involved in an active engagement. When the war or hostile activities ended their sexuality was an issue.

 

I'd go...big surprise, huh?

 

they wouldnt want me .....another surprise ....

 

Actually, my squadron seperated 3 lesbians/bi-chicks DURING the shock and awe portion of of the current Iraqi, and we were actively bombing like mad. My last deployment to the Gulf region, no one on the entire ship got seperated and to say the least we really didnt do that much AND we are once again downsizing.
those are facts that I have personally experienced.

 

i can only tell you what i did, back during the viet nam era, when i was staring in the ugly pimpled face of getting drafted myself. i enlisted in the air force as a cooperative consciencous objector. they sent me to tec schools and ojt squadrons for two years, two months and one day. then they decided i was nutter then a fruit cake, gave me an honorable, and told me not to let the door hit me where the dog bit me (so to speak).

i can't guarantee that how or if that would still work. everything chainges so i really can't. i CAN tell you i'd feel prouder now if i had become a canadian citizen at that time, but i'd never been on the road, never been away from mommy and daddy, and frankly didn't have the balls to try.

but what i did, DID keep me out of both jail and combat.
there were draft card burning ralleys at that time. in the cities. on college campuses.
i was no where near them. i was not in college. i did not live in a city.

i think if i'd have had that kind of peer support i'd have disappeared into the woodwork somewhere, somehow. gotten myself to some other country. and lived the rest of my life there.

i have no emotional attatchment to any government, and certainly none to the way of life i am surrounded by now, though i've no doubt others likly exist that are worse.

and it is safer in the tent the powerfull are pissing out of then one they are outside of pissing in. but one they ignore entirely and can be expected to continue doing so would be by far the best of all.

my heart belongs to the kind of world i would rather be living in, and that is not one that requires anyone to kill for idiology or the greed of others.

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I would burn my draft card and move to france to be with my gf asap!

What angers me is the apathetic fellow young adults of today in the usa..no one really protests and are lazy..at least in france people protest!

 

I'd just make sure I failed the physical requirements. I'm a fat man so that shouldn't be too difficult.

 

Fuck that shit, I'd go into hiding.

 

Ever thought about cashing in on your size by attending a rehearsal for the TV show The Biggest Loser ?



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i have

tis why i'm getting nice and fat

 

Sounds more like you're rehearsing for a role in Hansel and Gretel :H



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