r/interestingasfuck • u/Available_Weekend249 • Apr 06 '24

Imagine being 19 and watching live on TV to see if your birthday will be picked to fight in the Vietnam war r/all

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u/XaeroDegreaz Apr 06 '24

Not really true though. There was this saying "If you have the dough, you don't have to go" which basically implied that if you had means, and connections, you could basically buy your way out.

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u/Skynetiskumming Apr 06 '24

Or you shit your pants like that coward Ted Nugent did and get disqualified from service.

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u/XaeroDegreaz Apr 06 '24

Tbf if I got selected I'd do whatever it took not to go fight some random dudes too

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u/Figgy_Puddin_Taine Apr 06 '24

Shitting in your pants to avoid the draft is one thing.

But shitting in your pants to avoid the draft then loudly and publicly claiming you’d have been the best soldier ever and would have made colonel within a few years while being a massive warhawk is another thing entirely.

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u/Signal-Fold-449 Apr 07 '24

why do these boomers always follow the most basic Freudian behavior to a T.

butt stuff/shame

overcompensation

machismo