You decide to your parent’s great relief to attend college instead of enlisting in the military. You feel that you can make a lot more difference in the world by becoming a lawyer than you would be able to fighting the Viet Cong seeing as you aren’t exactly the most fit person you know. All of the men that you know that were sent to Vietnam had bodies that were quite a bit more able than yours, though you guess that you could always have served the army in a different way. You start your first semester of college and learn quite a bit, though you decide that you most definitely do not like basic chemistry. It’s way too much math for your taste.
You have a great winter break with your family, and find it amazing how much you missed them in the five or so months that you were gone. The weather is way better at home than it is in Maryland, and you appreciate that you were able to go back to the Florida sun before having to face the snow up north. However, you miscalculate a bit and schedule your plane back to Washington College right when a snowstorm hits, and aren’t able to register for your second semester of college in time to attend. No longer protected as a student, you are drafted to fight in Vietnam.
Your parents refuse to let you go, and you’re terrified of the implications of going to fight as well. However, it’s a federal crime to ignore the draft, so you have a bit of thinking to do. Your parents have heard of some people trying to flee to Canada in order to avoid the draft, but you think that it would be easier for you to go south, to Mexico. You haven’t heard much from the southern country recently, and it would certainly be easier for you to live there if you were to defect.
What do you do?
You have a great winter break with your family, and find it amazing how much you missed them in the five or so months that you were gone. The weather is way better at home than it is in Maryland, and you appreciate that you were able to go back to the Florida sun before having to face the snow up north. However, you miscalculate a bit and schedule your plane back to Washington College right when a snowstorm hits, and aren’t able to register for your second semester of college in time to attend. No longer protected as a student, you are drafted to fight in Vietnam.
Your parents refuse to let you go, and you’re terrified of the implications of going to fight as well. However, it’s a federal crime to ignore the draft, so you have a bit of thinking to do. Your parents have heard of some people trying to flee to Canada in order to avoid the draft, but you think that it would be easier for you to go south, to Mexico. You haven’t heard much from the southern country recently, and it would certainly be easier for you to live there if you were to defect.
What do you do?