Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/05/12

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Subject: [Leica] Did a Single Photograph or Two Stop the War In Viet Nam?
From: msmall at infionline.net (Marc James Small)
Date: Wed May 12 08:12:45 2004
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At 07:26 AM 5/12/04 +0200, Daniel Ridings wrote:
>> My draft number was 317 and my ROTC papers were there to be signed.
>
>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.
>
>And you signed the papers?

Yes, Daniel.  That was my entire point:  I was not going to be drafted, as
my draft board never got below number 12 as they credited voluntary
enlistments against their draft quota, a policy left to the discretion of
the local board.  So I had a couple of days of Great Moral Quandry before I
volunteered.

Marc

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