https://padlet.com/jsalgado46/Bookmarks Made with a taste for adventure en-us 2022-02-01 18:15:42 UTC 2025-04-07 22:31:31 UTC hello@padlet.com jsalgado46 https://padlet.com/jsalgado46/Bookmarks/wish/2024000156 2022-02-01 18:28:50 UTC https://padlet.com/jsalgado46/Bookmarks/wish/2024000156 jsalgado46 https://padlet.com/jsalgado46/Bookmarks/wish/2024002910 2022-02-01 18:30:09 UTC https://padlet.com/jsalgado46/Bookmarks/wish/2024002910 jsalgado46 https://padlet.com/jsalgado46/Bookmarks/wish/2025905215 Largest city in Vietnam]]> 2022-02-02 17:31:49 UTC https://padlet.com/jsalgado46/Bookmarks/wish/2025905215 jsalgado46 https://padlet.com/jsalgado46/Bookmarks/wish/2025914016 2022-02-02 17:35:27 UTC https://padlet.com/jsalgado46/Bookmarks/wish/2025914016 jsalgado46 https://padlet.com/jsalgado46/Bookmarks/wish/2025922662 2022-02-02 17:39:17 UTC https://padlet.com/jsalgado46/Bookmarks/wish/2025922662 jsalgado46 https://padlet.com/jsalgado46/Bookmarks/wish/2025932940 2022-02-02 17:42:44 UTC https://padlet.com/jsalgado46/Bookmarks/wish/2025932940 jsalgado46 https://padlet.com/jsalgado46/Bookmarks/wish/2025943103 2022-02-02 17:47:27 UTC https://padlet.com/jsalgado46/Bookmarks/wish/2025943103 jsalgado46 https://padlet.com/jsalgado46/Bookmarks/wish/2025951177 2022-02-02 17:51:15 UTC https://padlet.com/jsalgado46/Bookmarks/wish/2025951177 jsalgado46 https://padlet.com/jsalgado46/Bookmarks/wish/2025957334 20 years]]> 2022-02-02 17:54:02 UTC https://padlet.com/jsalgado46/Bookmarks/wish/2025957334 jsalgado46 https://padlet.com/jsalgado46/Bookmarks/wish/2025960210 2022-02-02 17:55:25 UTC https://padlet.com/jsalgado46/Bookmarks/wish/2025960210 jsalgado46 https://padlet.com/jsalgado46/Bookmarks/wish/2025965086 2022-02-02 17:57:29 UTC https://padlet.com/jsalgado46/Bookmarks/wish/2025965086 jsalgado46 https://padlet.com/jsalgado46/Bookmarks/wish/2025979726 Dwight Eisenhower, John f. Kennedy, Lyndon B Johnson, Ricardo Nixon, Gerald ford ]]> 2022-02-02 18:04:01 UTC https://padlet.com/jsalgado46/Bookmarks/wish/2025979726 jsalgado46 https://padlet.com/jsalgado46/Bookmarks/wish/2025986803 In May 1917, Congress passed the Selective Service Act, which created a national draft. The act required all men ages 21 to 30 to register for military service at local polling stations. This was the first time the U.S. government had established a draft before entering a war.]]> 2022-02-02 18:07:06 UTC https://padlet.com/jsalgado46/Bookmarks/wish/2025986803 jsalgado46 https://padlet.com/jsalgado46/Bookmarks/wish/2025990040 The Sedition Act of 1918 curtailed the free speech rights of U.S. citizens during time of war. Passed on May 16, 1918, as an amendment to Title I of the Espionage Act of 1917, the act provided for further and expanded limitations on speech.]]> 2022-02-02 18:08:37 UTC https://padlet.com/jsalgado46/Bookmarks/wish/2025990040 jsalgado46 https://padlet.com/jsalgado46/Bookmarks/wish/2025992776 2022-02-02 18:09:52 UTC https://padlet.com/jsalgado46/Bookmarks/wish/2025992776 jsalgado46 https://padlet.com/jsalgado46/Bookmarks/wish/2025998787 Following Japan's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, in 1941, Congress amended the act to require all able-bodied men ages 18 to 64 to register with their local draft board for military service for the duration of World War II plus six months after. In practice, however, only men 18 to 45 were drafted]]> 2022-02-02 18:12:49 UTC https://padlet.com/jsalgado46/Bookmarks/wish/2025998787 jsalgado46 https://padlet.com/jsalgado46/Bookmarks/wish/2026001669 The Military Selective Service Act of 1967 expanded the ages of conscription to the ages of 18 to 55. It still granted student deferments, but ended them upon either the student's completion of a four-year degree or his 24th birthday, whichever came first.]]> 2022-02-02 18:14:13 UTC https://padlet.com/jsalgado46/Bookmarks/wish/2026001669 jsalgado46 https://padlet.com/jsalgado46/Bookmarks/wish/2026004555 On November 26, 1969, President Nixon signed an amendment to the Military Selective Service Act of 1967 that began the random selection or “draft lottery” for military conscription. ... One of the most instrumental officials in Nixon's White House tasked with draft overhaul was Peter Flanigan]]> 2022-02-02 18:15:37 UTC https://padlet.com/jsalgado46/Bookmarks/wish/2026004555 jsalgado46 https://padlet.com/jsalgado46/Bookmarks/wish/2026006396 The prevailing sentiment that the draft was unfairly administered fueled student and blue-collar American opposition to the military draft. Opposition to the war arose during a time of unprecedented student activism, which followed the free speech movement and the Civil Rights Movement.]]> 2022-02-02 18:16:33 UTC https://padlet.com/jsalgado46/Bookmarks/wish/2026006396 jsalgado46 https://padlet.com/jsalgado46/Bookmarks/wish/2026009674 The last draft call was on December 7, 1972, and the authority to induct expired on June 30, 1973.]]> 2022-02-02 18:18:05 UTC https://padlet.com/jsalgado46/Bookmarks/wish/2026009674 jsalgado46 https://padlet.com/jsalgado46/Bookmarks/wish/2026013462 In March 1969 Nixon established the Commission on an All-Volunteer Force (also known as the Gates Commission), which released a report in February 1970 recommending an end to the draft. On July 1, 1973, the draft law expired in the United States when Congress refused to extend it.]]> 2022-02-02 18:19:53 UTC https://padlet.com/jsalgado46/Bookmarks/wish/2026013462 jsalgado46 https://padlet.com/jsalgado46/Bookmarks/wish/2026017249 The draft is officially known as the selective service. Basically, this means that if we ever have a national emergency or war that the all-volunteer military can't adequately support, Congress and the president can reinstate the draft and force male citizens to serve in the military.]]> 2022-02-02 18:21:46 UTC https://padlet.com/jsalgado46/Bookmarks/wish/2026017249