Military Draft Quotes

“It's too bad the military draft has an upper age limit. Imagine the beautiful society we would have if WWIII were fought exclusively by Boomers.”
― Jarod Kintz, Powdered Saxophone Music

“I never really drank until I got in the Service. I didn't smoke either until I got in the Service. I got all my bad habits in the Service.
[ -- Leslie Moede who served in post WW2 Germany]”
― David Nasaw, The Wounded Generation: Coming Home After World War II

“…statistics experts later proved that the first [1969 nationally televised Vietnam Draft] lottery had a bias in favor of January and February birthdays, whose pellets had been put in the drum first and ended up at the bottom.”
― Lawrence M. Baskir, Chance and Circumstance: The Draft, the War, and the Vietnam Generation