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Explain to me how the draft works. Is it just like a list of citizens and they just send emails out to random abled people?
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My dad all had friends that got drafted.
Oh, really?
And he got married to— he didn't believe in the war, obviously, and he got married. And then to even make sure he didn't get drafted, he had a kid. Wait, but explain to me how my dad had a kid when he was 21.
Explain to me how the draft works. Is it just like a list of citizens and they just send emails out to random abled people?
Not emails, Dave.
This is 1970.
So if you weren't going to college, just like random, like, how does that get a letter and you'd get a number? And if you had like a low number, there'd be a good chance that you would go.