[MissCalico]

Please re-read the post. I stated my response was ONLY directed to a point in the original post where "...Mel was never in a position to be drafted..." It only turned out that way years after the move. Two other freepers basically posted my same response on this particular point. And, btw, it's not my opinion...his father intentionally, by his own and Mel's admission, moved the family to prevent his sons, including a potentially eligible Mel, from the draft.

[TigersEye]

"...Mel was never in a position to be drafted..."

That statement is true. There is no rational refutation of that.

[DJ MacWoW]

moved the family to prevent his sons, including a potentially eligible Mel, from the draft.

Some of Hubby's family moved to America so they wouldn't be drafted to fight Napoleon. Were they draft dodgers?

I think that we are better off with the system that we have now. Anyone who joins is a true Patriot.

[ansel12]

Vietnam was Australia’s longest war, and their draft was in full force during the Vietnam war, the draft of neither nation has anything to do with Mel Gibson, he was too young.

Hutton Gibson said that one reason he moved was an effort to keep his OLDEST son from being drafted, he did not think that the Australia draft would take that son.