I got my draft card!
Well, I’m now registered for the Selective Service System, whop de frickin do. I guess one could consider this a coming of age, kinda like a congratulations! Your finally able to be drafted should we need to! Not only does being a part of the SSS allow me to go off and die, but I can also receive federal funds for my college education. What shifty lawmaker came up with that? Who said, lets see our kids fail in society unless they let us draft them, for it is only the rich kids who can afford college without federal funds when it comes down to it. It’s a good thing that this hasn’t become a real conscious and societal problem, the fact that you have to register to recieve funds, if it were I’m sure it would hamper Americas intelligent work force dramatically, for if it were an issue I’m sure that many Americans would rather work for several years after high school than register. If this were to happen America would see a sharp decline in the educated workforce and we would fall even farther behind the booming science industries in other parts of the world.
Perhaps the most insulting thing to me however about the letter was the fact that it was colorful. What the hells up with that? Here, lets put some bright happy colors on the letter to make you happy that you’re going to be drafted and die. “Whoooopy were all gonna die!” Its hard to explain why this angered me so much, perhaps the fact that they added color to a document that right now means very little (although that could all change very soon), but I think part of me found it insulting because of the significance that draft cards help in the 60’s. While I wasn’t around for this I’ve heard the stories and to an extent participated in the culture that has in part derived from this (protesting, not some of the…experimental aspects).
I guess what it boils down to is the realization that yes, I am now old enough to fight and serve my country, to vote, and to actually be listened to by adults, funny that one finds their coming of age in a draft card, ironic
- General, Life, Liberty, Pursuit of Happiness | Time: 4:57 pm (UTC+8)
Those politicians would have been the Carter administration in 1980.
…In 1980, Congress reinstituted draft registration for men 18 to 25 years old. If there were to be a crisis, registered men would be inducted as determined by age and a random lottery….
I got to register in the first group so I could get student loan.
Comment by Don — March 11, 2006 @ 2:19 pm
Yup, thats how they got me, had to get that FAFSA money…
Comment by renegadeblogger — March 11, 2006 @ 6:16 pm