Why veterans don't talk about their experiences.
I can think of several reasons why veterans don't talk about their experiences: 1.They don't really have any. In the Vietnam conflict only about 50% or less of the Army served in Vietnam, of that 50%...
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Having served in the "draft" military and the all volunteer military, I hope to god, there is never another draft. You cannot craft a soldier from someone who has no desire to be one today. The...
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By the way the military isn't the place you send spoiled children for reformation. That should have been taken care of by the parents in the 7 to 18 year old period.
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I agree with Jackbull 100%. The military is not a reform school for young people that don't sincerely want to serve their country. By the time a person is 18 years old or older, teaching them...
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I doubt there will be another draft. The problem would come when some guy who didn't want to go would refer to the equal protection clause of the Constitution and ask why women weren't eligibel to be...
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Colin, you're right, I didn't even think about the equal protection clause in the Constitution. The draft would be a form of sexual discrimination, and with the prohibition of involuntary servitude in...
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Anyone really interested in the Draft only has to read back as far as the War of Northern Aggression here is the United States. History today will tell you that never was there a war where the enemy...
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One interesting thing about the WWII draft was that the Department of the Navy and the Army Special Services Branch had first pick of all the draftees up to late 1943. In those days there were two...
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Pvt Slovk was a marginal individual, possibly retarded to a degree and it is questionalble that he should have been allowed to serve. It's a bit unfair to simply color him as a felon without a bit of...
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The political conditions that would require a revival of the Draft do not exist right now. We need a situation similar to say 1940 for a "peacetime draft" to be reinstated. The constitutionality of...
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I agree that Slovak was a had a marginal personality, but I'm not sold on the assumption that he was mildly retarded. Rather, I think he was a poorly educated low grade sociopath ( pathological liar,...
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I always thought Bradford Huie asked why Slovik was the ONLY G.I. executed (formally, that is) for desertion and why if the intent was to make an example of him was the execution carried out in secrecy.
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My dad was one of those '43 draftees. he wore glasses, had a bad back and was working in defense work in a steel mill. (that's where he got the bad back) He didn't go to a line unit but served as best...
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My mother said she went to visit my old man when he was stationed in Newport News during WWII, she said they were on a bus when the driver pointed out the German PoWs working in a field-"Afrika Korps"...
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Some notes on Slovik. 21049 GIs were convicted of desertion in WW2 with 49 recieving the death sentence. Slovik was the only execution. The only one since the civil war. There were a number of GIs...
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I agree that most of the officers sitting on Slovik's CM condemned him although they seemed to think the sentence would never be carried out. It seems that the officers were all service support guys...
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It's been 30 years since I read the book and saw the movie, I do recall that Bradford Huie questioned the composition of the court and noted that no front line/combat arms officers could be spared....
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Should I be hearing a bell ring here? (Ref #20)
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I too, was there that night.Gun 2 . Probably know you. Give me a hint who you are or what gun.
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303 Lithgow wrote:I found your post very interesting and I agree with it. I served in Vietnam and belong to a yahoo group of my unit. The group is from those that served in 2nd Battalion, 35th...
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