Being Quote by Thomas Steinbeck

When I volunteered for the draft as a 20-year-old, mischievous guy at the height of the Vietnam War, most thought I was destined to…

— Dan Pena

The Vietnam War was causing people to get drafted; I had received a deferment to finish my undergraduate education, and in order to continue…

— Robert Shapiro

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 was drafted during the Korean War.

— Clint Eastwood

I got drafted and enlisted in the Navy.

— Paul Raci

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 read my first book on Woodrow Wilson at age 15, and I was hooked.

— A. Scott Berg

I began serving my country when I was 18 years old and entered the U.S. Naval Academy.

— Mikie Sherrill

I was drafted into the Army when I was 19 and came out at age 22. Most people that I knew didn't think they'd…

— Ed Koch

For educated Americans like Joseph Ellis, Vietnam is a special hang-up. I am an Englishman of exactly the Vietnam generation, a couple of years…

— Geoffrey Wheatcroft

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

I wrote the first draft of 'Plan B' the summer after I turned 21.

— Lisa Lutz