Patrick Mcilheran; Draft Is Dead? Put a Stake in, to Be Sure

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Though the draft ended when I was 9, I've managed to serve with draftees.

In my 20s, I volunteered at a nursing home. We mainly pushed wheelchairs - onto the elevator, down to lunch, chatting a bit with the residents. I found it fulfilling, but the teens drafted to help by some school service project apparently didn't. A lot of them malingered, ignoring residents when they could, putting in time. They came and went.

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Patrick Mcilheran; Draft Is Dead? Put a Stake in, to Be Sure

It's a good thing osteoporosis doesn't shoot back, or we'd have all been toast.

This comes to mind because the draft came briefly to headlines. Rep. Charles Rangel

(D-N.Y.) celebrated his party's anti-war win by saying he'd push ...

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