OH+History

Background Information Well the story begins with my father, but he will tell his part as time goes on. For now, things you need to know. Though's who tried to avoid the draft anyway possible were known as, "Draft Dodgers". Before the war everyone had to register for their "lucky" lottery ticket. To be selected your birth date, from january 1,1944 to december 31, 1950. There were 366 blue plastic balls in a jar, the ages of the men were from 18-25 years of age.

To avoid being drafted, don't register. The reason is because they can't indict you unless they have proof that you were needed to register. If they didn't have proof they would need someone like the FBI to personally tell you to register. Plus as the m ilitary say, " You have the right to remain silent and refuse to answer questions. Do you understand?"

At 1969 there were 253 Universities wrote to the White-House saying that they would refuse to go to the military or be drafted. They joined Half of a million others who agreed with their views. As time went on there were more resisters. By the end of the war there were only 206,000 people were arrested for doing delinquent things. Such as burning their draft cards. There were 209,517 people that fled, only about 9,000 were arrested.

http://hasbrouck.org/draft/ http://depts.washington.edu/antiwar/vietnam_draft.shtml

Questions

1. How important was the war and the draft in your daily life? media type="file" key="20100602 203914.m4a" width="240" height="40" 2. Did you know anyone who died in the war? media type="file" key="20100602 204017.m4a" width="300" height="50" 3. How many of your friends were for the war and how many of your friends were against? media type="file" key="20100602 204125.m4a" width="300" height="50" 4. Im sure there were strong reactions towards the, what were your family's or your reaction about you being drafted? media type="file" key="20100602 204252.m4a" width="300" height="50" 5. What was your draft number? media type="file" key="20100602 204409.m4a" width="300" height="50" 6. What were your main memories of the Vietnam Draft? media type="file" key="20100602 204743.m4a" width="300" height="50" 7. When people were trying to avoid the draft were they really conscientious objectors of the war or were they just scared of death? media type="file" key="20100602 204913.m4a" 8. What was it like to go through the draft board and the physical? media type="file" key="20100602 205027.m4a" width="300" height="50" 9. At your time were there still deferment for anything? media type="file" key="20100602 205310.m4a" width="300" height="50" 10. Now that it has been 40 years, looking back what do you think of the war? media type="file" key="20100602 205425.m4a" width="300" height="50"