President Jimmy Carter – Liza Ketchum https://www.lizaketchum.org/blog Tue, 11 Nov 2014 13:35:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 76312305 Get drafted into the Vietnam War or flee to Canada? The choice haunting Brandon’s father https://www.lizaketchum.org/blog/get-drafted-into-the-vietnam-war-or-flee-to-canada-the-choice-haunting-brandons-father/ https://www.lizaketchum.org/blog/get-drafted-into-the-vietnam-war-or-flee-to-canada-the-choice-haunting-brandons-father/#respond Tue, 11 Nov 2014 01:02:02 +0000 https://www.lizaketchum.org/blog/?p=78 Read More]]> PeaceMedallionIn 1960s America, if you were a kid, you went to school. And if you were a high school or college-aged boy, you were assigned a number. And if your number came up, you went, like a Roman gladiator, ready to fight to the death.

Not the happy childhood you expected, huh? What alternatives were there? Young males like Brandon’s father (from Out of Left Field) found it wasn’t an easy choice to make. Avoiding the military draft by fleeing to Canada was a crime, until a 1977 action by President Jimmy Carter. 

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