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No draft to spread the burden of war more fairly.
The state has several military bases, and displays such a yen for fighting that during the Vietnam war, when Oklahomans had no draft to face, they volunteered in record numbers.Before he abandoned the field, Dick Gephardt had secured most of the state's delegates.
With a shrinking roll of full-time soldiers and no draft to replenish it, the nation's armed forces have had to reach deeper into the Reserves and the National Guard, where men in their 50's typically train and serve alongside soldiers in their teens.
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Other than a couple of tweaks to the house rules ("NO DRAFT, NO FRIES, NO TALKING TO IMAGINARY PEOPLE"), the TCP is just as it was the day it opened in 1976.
There's no military draft to pull together a constituency and force life-or-death choices on every male teenager.
"With no draft reindeer to haul their camps, they resorted to full-time subsistence fishing and borrowed breeding stock to rebuild their herds, a multiyear process".
It's not a pretty comparison, but consider this: Critically, the Knicks gave up no draft picks to the Bulls -- which used to be typical in bad Knicks trades of the past.
It's easy to glamorize warfare when there is no draft, or to idealize anyone whose life style seems risky and edgy without putting you, personally, at risk — spies and secret agents, rebels without a cause, the beatniks of Jack Kerouac's "On The Road".
They are out of the playoff hunt, and nobody wants to see them pack it in, especially since they have no draft assets to speak of next year.
No matter that there is no draft legislation to implement this suggestion.
And with no draft, opposition to the wars abroad has never reached the fever pitch of the 1960s either.
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