https://padlet.com/ao0003/nda2sam71n4bhzax en-us 2020-07-18 18:25:01 UTC 2026-02-20 11:17:39 UTC hello@padlet.com ao0003 https://padlet.com/ao0003/nda2sam71n4bhzax/wish/657502849 DRAFTED: After taking a weekend off from basic training, you try to dodge your draft
status by hitchhiking to Toronto, CA with a group of soldier friends. You and your
friends would live a drifter’s life for three years, relying on the charity and
kindness of others to make a living. You are in and out of homeless shelters, soup
kitchens, and the homes of kind people during this time, constantly aware and terrified
that the Army will catch up with you, and you will be sent back to America to rot in
jail, or worse -- to Vietnam. After a few years “on the lamb” you are caught by the
Army, and court martialed. Your rank is lowered, but you are on your way to Vietnam.
You are terrified while on your first mission out and due to your inability to think
clearly and rationally, make a huge mistake at war that gets you and five of your
fellow soldiers killed. At your funeral, after taps and the flag folding ceremony, your
mother holds your flag in her arms as she falls onto her knees and sobs, so full of
grief she is unable to stand.]]> 2020-07-18 18:26:11 UTC https://padlet.com/ao0003/nda2sam71n4bhzax/wish/657502849 ao0003 https://padlet.com/ao0003/nda2sam71n4bhzax/wish/657502877 DRAFTED: Your birthday is called in the draft, but lucky for you, your family is able to send you to college, allowing you to skip out on your army duties. You go to Harvard, where you major in engineering. You decide to start your own building business in New York City. You build your new company with help from your father, a wealthy and well connected businessman. You will make a million dollars before you turn 25. You have multiple wives throughout your life, as well as a few children along the way. Overall, you consider yourself a happy man who has lived a fulfilling life.]]> 2020-07-18 18:26:18 UTC https://padlet.com/ao0003/nda2sam71n4bhzax/wish/657502877 ao0003 https://padlet.com/ao0003/nda2sam71n4bhzax/wish/657503407 You narrowly escape the draft, thanking your God that your number
wasn’t called. You are able to work for a little out of high school at a factory until
you make enough money to send yourself to college. At college, you realize all of the
possibilities now open to you. You can be anything you want to be: a teacher, a doctor,
a lawyer; the possibilities are endless. You choose to be an artist, making paintings
and drawings to fill up your days. You love your job and your life, but you always
wonder how different it could have been if your number had been called.]]> 2020-07-18 18:28:52 UTC https://padlet.com/ao0003/nda2sam71n4bhzax/wish/657503407 ao0003 https://padlet.com/ao0003/nda2sam71n4bhzax/wish/657503512 You really don’t know why the U.S. is fighting in Vietnam in the first
place. You know it has something to do with… Communism? Ho Chi Minh is an evil
communist dictator who is going to kickstart the unstoppable red tide of Communism
throughout all of Asia? Or something like that. It doesn’t really apply to your life,
so you don’t really pay attention to the news. The war will probably be over soon,
right? Anyway, you live a farmer’s life: wake up, do your chores, eat dinner, do more
chores, go to bed. You remain relatively uninformed on the war during the entire time
the troops are over in Vietnam, only seeking out information in the Sunday paper. You
meet a wife and have two children. Unfortunately, your wife dies at age 50 of cancer,
but you had a long, fulfilling marriage with her and although she will be missed, you
love her and are sure she’s in a better place.]]> 2020-07-18 18:29:22 UTC https://padlet.com/ao0003/nda2sam71n4bhzax/wish/657503512 ao0003 https://padlet.com/ao0003/nda2sam71n4bhzax/wish/657503633 You enlist in the Army due to a strong feeling that it was your civic
duty. You became a specially trained code interpreter for the Army Security Agency, or
ASA. You were told that you would be serving a four year term, but that you would be in
Thailand, where there is no fighting. Plans changed without your knowledge, however,
and you find yourself on a plane to Vietnam. Throughout your time in Vietnam, you act
as a “spy”, intercepting messages between the North Vietnamese Army and the Vietcong
along the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Your job is to interpret the code these messages are sent
in and relay the information and their coordinates to American troops. You don’t see
much combat in your for years, except on your mile long hike to your mess hall and
bunk. Upon returning home, you decide you hate the Army, but with age, you come to the
realization that you don’t hate the Army, just the circumstances you were under. You
live a happy life working for the Army as a recruiter, always on American soil. You
have a wife and children, all of whom you love very much.]]> 2020-07-18 18:29:51 UTC https://padlet.com/ao0003/nda2sam71n4bhzax/wish/657503633