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Subject: [Leica] Did a Single Photograph or Two Stop the War In Viet Nam?
From: bdcolen at earthlink.net (B. D. Colen)
Date: Wed May 12 07:38:49 2004

I was 116 - and I pulled every Clintoneque and Bushesque trick I could
to avoid being called - (Yes, I was a Vietnam draft dodger) and ended up
4something - it was a 'don't call us, we'll call you if and when the
Ruskies are over Des Moines.' 

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From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
Jeffery Smith
Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2004 10:26 AM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: RE: [Leica] Did a Single Photograph or Two Stop the War In Viet
Nam?


Yikes, I was 130 and they didn't. I didn't think they got anywhere near
279.

At 09:22 AM 5/12/2004, you wrote:




>I was 279, and they drafted me.
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>Gene
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> > My draft number was 317 and my ROTC papers were there to be signed.
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>Wake up call ... they rarely rarely took anyone with a number higher 
>than 75. 100 was still a little uneasy, but after that, you were pretty

>much home free.
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>And you signed the papers?
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>Daniel
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Replies: Reply from jls at runbox.com (Jeffery Smith) ([Leica] Did a Single Photograph or Two Stop the War In Viet Nam?)
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