Eagered to find out more about the drafting process for the Vietnam soldiers i started searching to see what i could find. I found a website that has a lot of stories that had been shared by veterans that were pulled from a lottery pull to get drafted. Lots of stories and lots of different perspectives like one where a man was drafted and sent to war even with the fact that he had two kids and a wife. There is a quote that sticks out to me "if the government wanted you to have a wife they would have assigned you one." The only things that mattered were winning the war and having enough back up to support the cause.
Another man mentioned the fact that he had no intention of wanting to get drafted. He explains the situation in an intriguing way but in the end he says cutting his right arm was worth it. He was able to have kids and get out of fighting a war that he didn't even understand. He saw his kids grow and when someone asked him if he regrets not going he says, "do you regret not being in an important family even? Well that is the same for me."
War stories, they are usually not what you expect but they explain it all from one perspective. Everything is understood from the perspective that lived it and experienced it.
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