Posted on 10/19/2007 11:31:13 AM PDT by RKV
Have a wonderful day!
What should a Republican do if a dim that never served attacks a Republcan that never served?
LLS
Harry, the real estate mogul, Reid has serious Mafia connections. He got an exemption from the Godfather.
Laugh about the hypocrisy of it all?
He was a boxer????
Very few? I sure don't know about that. I can think of dozens of guys I knew who were either drafted or joined because they knew they would be drafted. Enlistments tended to be up in those years as well -- no 'shooting' war and the idea of being in the military was popular with young men in that generation raised during WWII and the examples of older brothers, uncles etc. who had served during the big War and came home with the GI Bill. Thinking back, I can recall very few men of that generation who I knew who didn't spend time in the military or as a member of the Guard or Reserves. Here's the stats from Selective Service for those years. They averaged over 125,000 per year.
Inductions (by year) from World War I through the end of the draft (1973)
| Year: | Number of Inductions | |
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1917: 1973: |
516,212 2,294,084 18,633 923,842 3,033,361 3,323,970 1,591,942 945,862 183,383 0 20,348 9,781 219,771 551,806 438,479 471,806 253,230 152,777 137,940 138,504 142,246 96,153 86,602 118,586 82,060 119,265 112,386 230,991 382,010 228,263 296,406 283,586 162,746 94,092 49,514 646 |
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Toddlintown, learn a lesson.
I certainly have.
I think Harry Reid is detestable to the highest degree, but in 1957, we were hardly threatened by hostilities. The draft was only used to keep costs down. Elvis took a BIG pay cut!
As I recall, one could be disqualified for “extreme ugliness”... dunno if this applied to Dingy Harry or not.
Thanks again for breaking it out.
I got out of college in 1960 and many of us were being drafted. I served, but not in Vietnam, but many of my friends did.
LOL! To his credit though, I understand that Elvis turned down an offer of a cushy USO position in order to serve as a standard-issue GI.
Or perhaps that was considered by his management to be the more rock'n'roll thing to do - maintaining his marketing edge.
In 1973, the draft ended and the U.S. converted to an All-Volunteer military. You had no chance of being drafted in 1975.
The registration requirement was suspended in April 1975. It was resumed again in 1980 by President Carter in response to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Registration continues today as a hedge against underestimating the number of servicemen needed in a future crisis.
They were accepting volunteers.
Yes - 138,504 (in 1957) and 283,586 (in 1969). However, remember that there was a draft lottery in 1969 - I don’t recall from an earlier thread what Rush’s lottery number was. It is my understanding (I was way too young to remember) that in 1957 the order of induction was left largely to local draft boards - within broad guidelines set by Selective Service. Also, I remember reading that Rush had a medical deferment. Depending on the nature of the medical condition, that may have prevented Rush from service even if he had volunteered. I don’t know what Reid’s draft status was.
There is a book floating around... yet unpublished... that is all about his mobbed up life.
LLS
Maybe... but a public attack must be answered in some way publicly.
LLS
The government that had a draft and has registered its citizens (like me, and I still have the card) can restart that process at any time. That fact that the selective service picked birthdays (how I got #237) is an indication that it was for real.
He had to give it up cause hands went bad - referee kept stepping on them. lol
Harry never served so what was his comments today about? He basically claimed military service.
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