Draft dodger - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A draft dodger is a term, usually pejorative, that refers to a person who avoids ("dodges") the conscription policies of the nation in which he or she is a citizen or resident by leaving the country...
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Non Serviam: Evasion and Dissent From The Draft During The Vietnam War; ... Non Serviam: Evasion and Dissent From The Draft During The Vietnam War; It's 1970, the television is on and everyone is gathered to watch. The numbers keep going round and round until the machine stops and a number is selected.
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There are no known cases of returned refugees having been punished for draft evasion or desertion, although it must be noted that reliable information on such matters is hard to obtain from Vietnam. [6]
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To the extent that some textbooks or syntheses on the 1960s discuss the draft and the protest against it, the emphasis inevitably centers on draft card burning or draft evasion, neither of which, as this book shows, was at all ... Indeed, Lawrence Baskir and William Strauss, two analysts of the Vietnam War-era draft,
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Vietnam War: Draft Resistance ... Draft Resistance in the Vietnam Era ... Yet during the Vietnam War, draft evasion and draft resistance reached a historic peak, nearly crippling the Selective Service System.
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His lawyers had not attempted to deny the government’s charges of draft evasion, and Ali knew the odds were heavily against him. Throughout the trial, the boxer once known as Cassius Clay had seemed resigned, even bored. ... With the Vietnam War growing in unpopularity, Americans painted him as both a hero and a villain.
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During wars prior to Vietnam that the U.S. fought in the 20th century, there was not much talk of draft "evasion" or "resistance." If a young man did not want to fight, he would seek a deferment by ... To avoid being drafted to fight in Vietnam, young men in America could choose from four basic types of draft evasion:
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Vietnam War Deserters and Draft Resisters in Canada : List of Selected Works / Joseph Jones; Bibliography: Three lists of books. ... Go North Young Man: A Historiographical Look at Vietnam War Draft Resisters and Military Deserters in Canada / Jody McColman; Essay: A twenty-three page paper in pdf format (46 footnotes,
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Was talk radio host Rush Limbaugh disqualified from the Vietnam-era draft due to a pilonidal cyst? ... The issue discussed here is clearly not one of draft evasion, and the matter of who is justified in criticizing whom for not serving in Vietnam is a gray area to be hashed out in the public arena.
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Draft evasion and draft resistance, a not-infrequent and all-to-familiar event belonging to another era, that of the Vietnam War, may well soon be making a comeback.
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