This all sounds like you enlisted, not drafted. Is that correct?
If so, I'd say there is a difference morally between not enlisting voluntarily, and deliberately dodging the draft.
@BTW,I am with you on that one.
Furthermore,I don't hold it against anyone that used any legal means possible to dodge the draft.
Different strokes,and all dat.
Besides,what soldier wants a soldier beside him in combat that doesn't want to be there? At some point self-preservation HAS to become a consideration,and you don't need anyone around you that can't be counted on to cover your back.
BTW,there are some people who are just not emotionally fit to be a soldier,and you can't hold that against them. You just can't demand that someone do what they are not capable of doing.
The man in the family I was raised in was drafted during WW-2,and my mother told me he spent the first night at the reception center crying,so they sent him home as 4-F. He was raised by a domineering mother who treated him like a slave and beat him,so it should be no surprise that he was scared when he got around strangers. Hell,she made him quit school in the 3rd grade and go to work in a factory,and then took his whole paycheck when he got home.
His mother was a mean drunk,and stayed drunk most of the time from what I have heard
After all,if your own mother will do that,what will strangers do? Truth to tell,I always felt sorry for him.
I will also give him credit for remaining a life-long tee-totaler. Never knew him to even drink one beer his entire life.
