Yes. I was very concerned that I was going to end up there, and everyone knew at that point that the US had no intention of winning the war... it was simply a political thing, and a testing ground for new weapons... and our guys were dying, for no reason.
When I was 16, my lottery number was "1"... when I was 17, my lottery number was either 11 or 12... so you can see how I was sweating it.... fortunately, even though they did the lottery when I was 18, my number was way up there, 260 something, or higher... so the odds were good that I wouldn't have been drafted anyway, but then they stopped the draft.
While I am borderline rabidly patriotic... (almost blindly patriotic.....) at that point, even the most gung-ho hawks knew that it was a worthless endeavor, and a total waste of our young men's lives...
I'm thankful to God that I missed out on that.... too many guys I knew didn't miss out on it. The things they went through, over there, only to survive and come back home to the hatred and scorn of their former friends.....
it was a shameful time in our nation's history.. the way those combat vets were treated. Breaks my heart..I've listened to too many guys describing what it felt like to come home to people calling them "baby killers" "rapists" "murderers"..... all of that for simply serving their country when they were compelled to do so. It wasn't a voluntary thing for the vast majority of them, believe me.