Causing Quote by Robert Shapiro

“Roughly 80 percent of American soldiers in Vietnam were from poor or working-class backgrounds. Neither in college nor in graduate school—where most students received…

— James T. Patterson

I was 20, and my reality was that people either went to college full-time, or they were draftable. The dear friends that I went…

— Joe Walsh

I never had the chance to decide; I was drafted to serve my nation. While I received a deferment to attend school, I ultimately…

— Don Young

During Vietnam, I was in college, enjoying my student deferment. The government wisely felt that, in my case, military service was less important than…

— Al Franken

I remember the day I found out my draft status. I was really floored and kind of staggered around in a daze. It just…

— Parker Stevenson

I was going to get drafted, but I didn't really want to go into the Army.

— Rick James

The reason why many young people in the Vietnam War era were active was their lives were threatened by the draft and they were…

— Tom Morello

We had the Vietnam War in the '60s, and there was a draft. The students didn't believe in it, and it unified them.

— Neil Young

I was drafted during the Korean War.

— Clint Eastwood

With the draft, everybody was involved. Everybody was fodder. When you got to be 21, 22 and graduated from college, for two years your…

— Philip Roth

Anyone graduating from medical school in 1966 had first to fulfill military service before launching a career. Fiercely opposed to the Vietnam War, I…

— Harold E. Varmus

I went into the military because I wanted to get an education, not because I wanted to fight anybody.

— Charlie Murphy