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“It doesn't take an army to change the world, or an average-sized militia group, either. All it takes is one individual to say the word "No". Be it a man refusing to register for the draft, or be it a gun owner refusing to register his weapons in Connecticut, it is the same: defiance in the face of arbitrary authority.”

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Author:Mike Klepper

“It's too bad the military draft has an upper age limit. Imagine the beautiful society we would have if WWIII were fought exclusively by Boomers.”

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Book:Powdered Saxophone Music

Source: Powdered Saxophone Music

“A meticulous outline makes a magnificent book.”

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Author:Billy-Dean Gonzalez

“Each day we draft a new movement in our symphony of life; what melody will you compose today?”

“I think the hard work of writing is just how long a book is terrible before it's good.”

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Author:Leigh Bardugo

“I told them I failed my draft physical. My dad, who often dismissively uttered the words "I can't wait 'til the army gets ahold of you," sat at the kitchen table, flicked the ash off of his cigarette, took a puff, slowly let the smoke escape from his lips and mumbled, "That's good.”

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Author:Bruce Springsteen

“Holland surrendered to the Nazis. Belgium surrendered to the Nazis. The Germans marched into Paris. None of these catastrophes managed to shake the general feeling that war in Europe was not in Martin's business. A peacetime draft got the town's attention.”

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Book:The Town on Beaver Creek: The Story of a Lost Kentucky Community

Source: The Town on Beaver Creek: The Story of a Lost Kentucky Community

“Tony Cox, still a painter and not yet married to Yoko Ono, pioneered in the use of mescaline for draft-evasion. 400 milligrams taken before his own preinduction physical prompted an angry outburstas an orderly took a stab at his arm to draw blood. Tony roared, "What the fuck do you think you are doing?" and was led into the presence of a psychiatrist with whom he engaged in a protracted discussion of the merits of the New York school of abstract expressionist painting, all the while naked. Tony got his 4F classification, presumably on grounds of schizophrenia, and went on to counsel others liable to military service, using the same approach.”

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Author:Peter Stafford

“…statistics experts later proved that the first [1969 nationally televised Vietnam Draft] lottery had a bias in favor of January and February birthdays, whose pellets had been put in the drum first and ended up at the bottom.”

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Book:Chance and Circumstance: The Draft, the War, and the Vietnam Generation

Source: Chance and Circumstance: The Draft, the War, and the Vietnam Generation